- Had no idea there were so many Maya nuts around. Glad Jeremy reminded me. And some Central Asian nuts for balance.
- The best of Afroculinaria.
- The best of HarvestPlus. Oh for the time to do a mashup. Anyway, does this count? And what’s that you say? You have a paper you’re writing on the subject?
- CIP genebank sees CIMMYT’s ISO accreditation (certification? whatever) and raises it a new piece of software. ILRI genebank doubles down.
- One Data Portal to Rule them All. At FAO. Somewhat underwhelming, frankly.
- Rice boffins target drought-stressed villages
- New map of bioregions. In the Daily Mail?
- Sustainable intensification debate gets nowhere. Pretty cynical note to leave you with, don’t you think?
- Ok, so here’s something a little more festive. California caviar.
- And some beer to go with that.
Will the real Musa haekkinenii please stand up?
Oh dear. The Musa taxonomists among you will have spotted that the wild banana species illustrated in the previous post, with Markku Häkkinen standing beside it, was not the new species he recently discovered in Vietnam but rather Musa viridis. Markku is understandably a bit incensed about it and asked us to correct ScienceNordic’s error. We are happy to do so, with apologies for perpetuating the mistake, and to publish below Markku’s photo of the real Musa haekkinenii. I knew I should have waited for ProMusa to do its thing.
Finnish sea captain finds new banana in Vietnam
Finnish sea captain and amateur botanist Markku Häkkinen has studied wild bananas for nearly 40 years. Now he has found the new species to science.
That’s from ScienceNordic. The new species is called Musa haekkinenii, and was described earlier this year in Phytotaxa by a team of Vietnamese taxonomists, who graciously named it after Markku. Congratulations to all concerned. And we look forward to seeing the full details on ProMusa.
LATER: No, wait.
Nibbles: Manioc gastronomy, Wilting revolution, Turrialba cheese, Conservation and poverty, Beans breeding, Dye plants, Plant Cuttings, Amazon fires, Balm, African silver bullets, Heritage food, Potato politics, Native seed meet
- Cassava gets a makeover in Brazil. And another, of a different kind, in East Africa.
- Revolution turns into Terror. Where’s our Napoleon?
- Designating Costa Rican cheese.
- Conserving poverty?
- No poverty for bean breeders in the US.
- The uses of Oregon Grape. Which is of course not a grape.
- Chaffey Style.
- Coconut water is a major conservation issue for 2013. It says here.
- Fewer farmers, more fires. In the Amazon. It says here.
- Yeah, what is balsam anyway?
- So the Next Big Thing in African ag development is agricultural growth corridors. What could possibly go wrong? Will they learn from wildlife corridors? Will they be using these four apparently key technologies? Or bolstering extension? And will it all mean a decrease in bush meat consumption?
- Heritage foods book. Yummie.
- Like potatoes in Peru, I guess. And various street foods in West Africa.
- Conference on native seed use in the US. Probably even some crop wild relatives in there.
Compliments of the season
The movers are packing up my office as I type this, and I don’t know how long I have before the computer is taken away from me, so let me quickly link to the (2018 PDF of the) Storify thing I did for the crop wild relatives genomics meeting last week, and also say that blogging might be a bit slow this week from my part, and non-existent next week as I take some well-deserved vacat…