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Nibbles: Breeding, Frankincense and myrrh, Roman pills, Chinese botanic garden, NPGS, Green red bush tea, Old banyan, Terroir, Botanic gardens and invaders, AnGR

National Organic Coalition suggests USDA’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture separate conventional and participatory breeding from anything involving DNA in considering projects for support. Second-guessing the Three Wise Men. Yet more on attempts to deconstruct ancient Roman medicines using DNA from tablets found in a shipwreck. Real Indiana Jones stuff. Botanic garden and genebank …

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Nibbles: USDA maize genebank, Apple breeding, Seed conservation, Soil map, Scoring supermarkets, DNA barcoding, Stone Age Hypoxis, Hybrid wine, Lost crops, Boswellia, Leucokaso, Species mixtures

Nice student video on the genebank and breeding programmes at Iowa State. Speaking of breeding programmes and videos, here’s Sean Myles on his work on apples in Canada. Seed conservation legend Richard Ellis on what climate change is doing to seed quality. An amazing new global soil properties map is open for business. Scoring supermarkets …

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Brainfood: Biodiversity & production, Tertiary tomato, Maya collapse, Restoration opportunities, Mixtures, Synchronous crop failure, Boswellia future, Soya diversity, Genetic load, Domestication, Ag & biodiversity, Cotton domestication, Food preservation

Contributions of biodiversity to the sustainable intensification of food production. They are various and considerable, but context-specific. See additional data here. See also everything below… Development of interspecific hybrids between Solanum lycopersicum L. and S. sisymbriifolium Lam. via embryo calli. Tertiary genepool? No problem. The Role of Diet in Resilience and Vulnerability to Climate Change …

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Nibbles: Grape breeding, Vanilla breeding, DSI policy, ITPGRFA, Maori taro, Dhofar memories

Marker-assisted breeding in grapes: like skimming through a book looking for key words. Vanilla genome: going from no-frills vehicle to luxury sportscar. CGN on what to do to ensure continued access to that book — or car. A topic which is all the rage right now in the ITPGRFA, on which this is a one-page …

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