Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
If you’re into quinoa, you’re probably going to need this directory. Hybrid rye is becoming a useful participant in maize-soybean rotations in the Corn Belt where giant ragweed is a problem. New insect-trapping wild tobacco species described from Australia. Biotechnologist and social scientist in conversation about genetic modification and gene editing.
The results of the 2nd International Quinoa Research Symposium are up on YouTube. I was today years old when I learned there’s a quinoa in Taiwan. REALLY old English Greening apple tree dies. Sad: “When you reach your new home in the wilderness, should you ever think of me, plant these seeds.” Not all gloom, …
A research vision for food systems in the 2020s: Defying the status quo. Research is necessary but not sufficient. Dismantling a dogma: the inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics. Not all genetic diversity is created equal. A re‐evaluation of the domestication bottleneck from archaeogenomic evidence. Not so much a single bottleneck “event” …
My name is Daniel Packer, I’m a quinoa breeder with the Sustainable Seed Systems Lab at Washington State University. I’d like to briefly reach out to you about the 2020 International Quinoa Research Symposium to be held on August 17-19 and hosted by the Sustainable Seed Systems Lab and the Food Systems Program at Washington …
Phylogeographic and population genetic analyses of Cucurbita moschata reveal divergence of two mitochondrial lineages linked to an elevational gradient. And nuclear genes show there’s a distinct population in Yucatan. Advances in cryopreservation of in vitro-derived propagules: technologies and explant sources. Beyond shoot tips. Characterization of two leaf rust-resistant Aegilops tauschii accessions for the synthetic wheat …