Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Sorry for the relative silence lately. Work intervened, involving a longish trip to Bhutan, to check out their national genebank. The specific project in question is the one we call BOLD. Check my insta for the inevitable, and inevitably classy, pix. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Luigi Guarino (@ggguarino)
Check out how the U.S. National Herbarium is digitizing its specimens. Wild. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Smithsonian (@smithsonian)
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Dr Helen Anne Curry, an historian at the University of Cambridge, has a piece out to trail her much anticipated book, Endangered Maize. I haven’t read the book yet, but the article is a brisk, knowledgeable and engaging run-through the history of crop diversity conservation in genebanks, using maize as a case study. Her conclusion …
The Corylus mandshurica genome provides insights into the evolution of Betulaceae genomes and hazelnut breeding. Yeah, but can it make Nutella better? Widely assumed phenotypic associations in Cannabis sativa lack a shared genetic basis. More work needed. Much more work. Dissecting industrial fermentations of fine flavour cocoa through metagenomic analysis. There’s a core of microorganisms …