Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Australian magazine overdoses on FIGS (Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy) h/t Dag. World Agroforestry Centre says malaria-cure trees are going extinct. World Malaria Day is on Monday 25th. New PhD programme on Biodiversity and Society. h/t CFTF, who say it covers diversification and neglected crops. China loves US pecans, giving Tom an opportunity for some …
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As promised yesterday, here’s a summary of Dag Terje Endresen’s recent paper, ((Endresen, D. (2010). Predictive Association between Trait Data and Ecogeographic Data for Nordic Barley Landraces Crop Science, 50 (6) DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2010.03.0174)) by the author himself. Focused Identification of Germplasm (FIGS, Mackay and Street, 2004) is a new method to select plant genetic resources …
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Germplasm collections can be very large, and that can put off potential users. What breeder really wants to screen thousands of accessions, when only a dozen might end up being useful? It’s not surprising, therefore, that people have looked for short-cuts. One approach is to make a “core collection.” You use the available data on …
Before I disappear for a few days of immersion in the First International Breadfruit Symposium back in Fiji, let me point to two somewhat complementary online resources on cereals genetic resources that I have come across – no doubt Jeremy will say and about time too – in the past couple of days. The FIGS database brings …