- Al Jazeera discovers wild relatives.
- The Scotsman discovers the laws of heredity.
- Diana uncovers banana beer.
- Rio +20 hacks discover the cerrado.
- Indian genebank discovers the market?
- JSTOR uncovers the pistachio.
- Scottish potato farmers discover new nemesis.
Getting journals to map species
We believe that implementation of a data-archiving policy by biodiversity and conservation journals would drive a large amount of species occurrence data across broad geographic and taxonomic ranges into biodiversity databases.
Uhm, something for the weekend, perhaps. Maybe even in conjunction with this. Or maybe I’ll just watch the football…
Nibbles: Gathering, Tubers, Quinoa, Africa-American heirlooms, Deforestation
- Edible weeds, anyone?
- Nope, Slate says the answer is tubers. And they may have a point.
- But Evo Morales thinks it’s quinoa.
- Meanwhile, Ms. Kimble cultivates her vegetable garden.
- And Luigi enticed by new mapping tool to explore deforestation on Sumatra.
Nibbles: Transitions edition
- Maize geneticist and forage breeder among USDA’s Agricultural Research Service Scientist of the Year winners.
- BBC man lands top Kew job.
- Elinor Ostrom RIP.
- If the wormwood don’t get you, the groundsel will. A tale of two wild Asteraceae.
- Foxtail Millet Offers Clues for Assembling the Switchgrass Genome. So that’s what millet is good for.
Brainfood: Barcoding, DArT for beans, SNOPs for Cacao, Aquaculture impacts, Cassava GS, Cereals in genebanks, Symbiosis
- A critical review on the utility of DNA barcoding in biodiversity conservation. Not bad, but not by itself.
- A whole genome DArT assay to assess germplasm collection diversity in common beans. It works, and can distinguish Andean from Mesoamerican accessions.
- Optimization of a SNP assay for genotyping Theobroma cacao under field conditions. It works, and is being used in Ghana.
- A Global Assessment of Salmon Aquaculture Impacts on Wild Salmonids. Meta-analysis shows farming salmon and trout in an area has in general been bad for their wild relatives there.
- Genome-wide selection in cassava. High correlations between SNPs and several phenotypic traits of interest to breeders mean that selection time could be cut by half. Could.
- Cereal landraces genetic resources in worldwide GeneBanks. A review. We don’t have enough data. On so many different levels.
- Coevolutionary genetic variation in the legume-rhizobium transcriptome. Wait, does this mean we should be conserving Rhizobium too?