Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Xylella has an insta. Check out also XF-actors. How did I miss the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative website? Even has the biodiversity soil atlas on there. They’re on Twitter too, of course, as is their director, Dr Monica Farfan. Latest Bambu & Rattan Update from INBAR. Check out in particular Prof. Terry Sunderland on African …
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NordGen genebank information system gets a boost. Uji for everyone in Kenya, thanks to genebank and breeding. Assam’s government supports a field genebank. One of many such efforts in India. Will Bonsall‘s genebank needs help. Maybe should move to India. Video on the Italian olive plague. This is why we need genebanks.
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 …
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. …
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 …