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Brainfood: Bushmeat, Mixed livestock, Zoos, NUS, GS, Vavilovia, Ribes, Phenotypes, Silkworms, Yam propagation

Eating Bushmeat Improves Food Security in a Biodiversity and Infectious Disease “Hotspot”. What could possibly go wrong. Potential of multi-species livestock farming to improve the sustainability of livestock farms: A review. Depends on management, in particular stocking rate. Genotyping on the ark: A synthesis of genetic resources available for species in zoos. Use genomics to …

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Brainfood: Plant blindness, African goats, Tissue culture, Phenotyping databases, Mekong transformation, African Fertile Crescent, Salty tomatoes, Pigeonpea domestication, Pharaonic watermelon, Apple domestication, Social media and PAs, Messaging, De novo domestication

Resetting the table for people and plants: Botanic gardens and research organizations collaborate to address food and agricultural plant blindness. There are so many ways to get people interested in plants. A review on goats in southern Africa: an untapped genetic resource. 500-600 years of natural selection must count for something. Agromorphologic, genetic and methylation …

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Nibbles: Savannah diversity, Omani banana, Truffle dogs, Taro & reef, Organic returns, Interspecific hybrids, Silk worm DNA, Indian diversity, American-Indian diversity, Aquaculture, Edge of Extinction, Inga key, Mexican forests, Mexican genebank, Beer, Spanish wheat, Commodities & SDGs

Metabarcoding of poop reveals secret of large herbivore diversity in African savannahs. Unique Omani banana fights pests. Truffle dogs: “Il cane, le corna non te le mette mai…” Traditional taro cultivation protects Hawaiian reef. Organic farming pays. Climate change favouring offspring of interspecies hybridization. Also in crops? Like brassicas maybe? Domestication of silk worm probed …

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Nibbles: Biological collections, ICT & food security, Pisco battles, Rabbit stew, Afghan silk, ILRI @40, Silicon Valley & livestock, Trade & deforestation, Nexus shmexus, Landscape analyzed, Native potatoes, Botanical herb garden, Plant crime, Cornbread & other indigenous foods, Climate smart ag, Caterpillar fungus, Reindeer poop virus, Rice breeder vid

Biological collections under pressure. And mobile phones probably wont help. Much. Chilean pisco? Really? The end of cooking? Sericulture on the Silk Road. ILRI is 40, did we say? Not sure what they do on sericulture. No doubt somebody there will tell us. They’re social networking machines over there. Watch out, ILRI, Silicon Valley is …

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