Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Let me expand a little on yesterdays’s teaser about the Seedlot Selection Tool. Say you have an accession of maize, for example, collected 20 years ago, for example, somewhere in the middle the NW zone of Mexico defined by Orozco-Ramírez, Perales & Hijmans (2017), for example. Say that you’d like to know where you could …
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It didn’t take long for my prediction to come true that the Mexican maize dataset I blogged about a couple of weeks back would get some more attention. The lead author of that previous paper, Hugo Perales, has teamed up with Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez and our old friend Robert Hijmans to do a deep dive into …
My apologies to Robert Hijmans, the developer of DIVA-GIS. I had forgotten how awsomely awesome his software. It was really only the work of half an hour to export a shapefile of the distribution of wild and weedy accessions from Genesys, open it in DIVA-GIS, produce a gridfile of taxon richness, export it as a …
As promised yesterday, here’s a summary of Dag Terje Endresen’s recent paper, ((Endresen, D. (2010). Predictive Association between Trait Data and Ecogeographic Data for Nordic Barley Landraces Crop Science, 50 (6) DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2010.03.0174)) by the author himself. Focused Identification of Germplasm (FIGS, Mackay and Street, 2004) is a new method to select plant genetic resources …
Continue reading “Links between trait and ecogeographic data found for Nordic barley landraces”
The Crop Science Society of America recently announced its annual awards, to be presented at the Society’s annual meetings in Pittsburgh on 3 November, next week. We couldn’t be happier about the Calvin Sperling Biodiversity Memorial Lectureship, which goes to our friend and sometime blogger here, Robert. J. Hijmans. As the announcement says, “Robert Hijmans …