Featured: Yam beans

Marc Deletre clarifies that yam bean paper: Yep, you’re right, the species’ names should be in the reverse order [in the abstract]. As it is it suggests that P. ahipa is the progenitor, but actually it’s the opposite. Sometimes, you just have to read the whole paper.

Nibbles: Dwarf rice, Ricestoration, Tarostoration, Biorepositories, Sustainable coffee, Cactus wars, Goaty portraits, Spandrels, Potato genebank, Forests and nutrition

The long and short of Green Revolution rice. Restoring historical slave-worked rice fields in North Carolina. Kinda similar, but taro in Hawaii. There’s a bank for milk diversity. Nice review of sustainable coffee production. Opuntia: tasty but deadly (to some). Handsome goat pix. Festoons of fruits at the Farnesina: Jeremy is incensed. Great new webpages …