Nibbles: Olive plague, ITPGRFA, Potato, Sweetpotato, Guinea pig, Amazon farming, Unilever, Apomixis, Pathogens, Reindeer,

The Xylella butcher’s bill mounts up. Webinar on the Plant Treaty. The history of the humble: potato, sweetpotato, guinea pig. Agroforestry in the forest. Unilever does C labelling. Biodiversity next? Hacking apomixis in sorghum and cowpea so farmers can save seeds of hybrids. Temperature range and plant host range of fungus and oomycete pathogens change …

Brainfood: Shiny seeds, Mexican maize, Olive plague, Pulse CWR, Climate change & biodiversity, Soybean diversity, Wild tomato, Brassica evaluation, Horizontal gene transfer, Wild Cajanus, Agroforestry benefits, Fishy diets, Symbiosis, Ancient Amazonia, Animal domestication

Delayed luminescence of seeds: are shining seeds viable? Maybe, but more research needed. Explaining the spatial scale of campesino agriculture in Mexico: Implications for the supply and conservation of native maize. Maize is not just for subsistence; never has been. Impact of Xylella fastidiosa subspecies pauca in European olives. Fancy maths says olives are doomed. …

Brainfood: Creole cattle, Wattle diversity, Olive death, Cucurbit diversity, Child nutrition, Seed systems, N efficiency, Black Sigatoka, Ag oils, Sharing double, Cow sharing, Horse phenotyping, Nutrients & CC

The genetic ancestry of American Creole cattle inferred from uniparental and autosomal genetic markers. Out of Africa… Tracing the genetic origin of two Acacia mearnsii seed orchards in South Africa. For one of the orchards, the origin is unknown, but it’s distinct to all the other, known provenances. Genetic Characterization of Apulian Olive Germplasm as …

Nibbles: ICRISAT genebank, Rubus, Microbial collections, AnGR, Xylella podcast, Andean ag, Chefs galore, Zizania, Peas, Inflatable beans, NUS, Potato Day, TR4, CC impacts, Cereals

Wanna work in a genebank in Niamey? More on that proposed livestock genebank in Uganda. Microbes have collections too. On his holiday, Jeremy mainly looked at dead olive trees. Freak. The Potato King looks like a cool movie. Chef Ramsey’s latest? Maybe not so much. Oh crap, we missed National Potato Day. Not in Peru, …