Nibbles: Wild bees, Korean rice, Peanut coffee, Ag research, Sugarcane, Eat This Newsletter

Wild bees important even if there are plenty of honeybees. The rice war hots up between Korea and Japan. Peanut coffee. Peak 2020. Hopefully. Op-ed on international agricultural research and indigenous knowledge systems takes us 25 years back in time to a simpler world. New varieties are behind sugarcane expansion in the US. You want …

Brainfood: Food groups, Bumblebees, Wild lettuce, Bambara, Miscanthus, Wild macadamia, Sperm cryo, Fungi, Feed adoption, Bere evaluation, Lactose persistence

Culinary Cultural Conservation and Cultural Keystone Food Groups: Concepts in Ethnobotany. Immigrants stick with viandas. Safeguarding the genetic integrity of native pollinators requires stronger regulations on commercial lines. About half of bumblebee specimens in SW Spain were F1 hybrids or BC1. Lactuca dregeana DC. (Asteraceae: Chicorieae) – A South African crop relative under threat from …

Nibbles: Purple, Emirati bees, MJ Bale, Solanum jamesii, Olive genebank, Victoria genebank, Kampot pepper

Murex from Meninx. Breeding a better bee. Menswear retailer to dabble in sustainable livestock. There was a fourth sister. A world olive collection in Spain. “If we can assume the fire pattern is as bad as the stuff we see on TV, I reckon at this very moment there is a goodly sized handful of …

Nibbles: Farm subsidies, Pressing and naming plants, Cowpea primer, California crop maps, Caribbean mangoes, ABS meeting, Banana mapping, Sarada Krishnan, Indian millets, Apple varieties, Early modern bees

Fun Twitter thread on zombie tropes about farm subsidies in the US. Should have been a blog post, though. Kew boffins on how to make an herbarium specimen. More complicated than you might think. And why it’s important. While I’m at it, this is how you use herbarium specimens etc. to name plants. IITA genebank …

Brainfood: Wild peanuts, Salt-tolerance, Melon diversity, Consumption & biodiversity, German veggie fanciers, Oh oh oomycetes, Miscanthus diversity, Urban pollinators, Milpa bees

Genomic characterisation of Arachis porphyrocalyx (Valls & C.E. Simpson, 2005) (Leguminosae): multiple origin of Arachis species with x=9. At least two distinct origins for the x=9 species. Salt Tolerant Varieties: A Biological Intervention to Manage Saline and Sodic Environment and Sustain Livelihoods. Salt-tolerant rice and wheat varieties are being adopted where needed in this bit …