Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Yet another USDA genebank in the news. This time it’s maize. G20 Agriculture vice-ministers recommend to “Support the development and promotion of a global information sharing system on plant and animal genetic resources.” Bison returns to Germany. Learn population genomics of crops and livestock. Ebony is a pretty old word. How Salvia got around.
Luigi thumps his tub, again: genebanks are important. Studiously avoiding turf-war truisms, grass species exhibit diverse drought tolerance. “Honor the Gift of Food,” to diversify diet in line with ancient practices. “I do not believe any president in the world has been so intimately involved with the problem of food production is his country, or …
Discover taxonomic names in files, websites, etc… Chinese genebank collecting wild species in Tibet. Touring a non-government genebank. And running another one. Not a community one, though. Everybody talking about scaling up. Here’s how you do it. Probably need the media involved, right? Scaling up did for the bison.
Old goat redux. A really nothing piece in the Washington Post about heirlooms. This is more like it: take home the Queen’s heirlooms. Well, almost. Here’s a baobab truly worthy of a factsheet. It was international trade that wiped out the bison. Fundamentals of On-Farm Plant Breeding Course: The Video. Another use for yeast. The …
Can bison play a role in conserving habitat for endangered sandhills species in Canada? Maybe, hence the recommendation to re-introduce them. Incidentally, there are a few crop wild relatives on the list of threatened plants of Canada. Genetic improvement of farmed tilapias: Genetic parameters for body weight at harvest in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) during …