Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Remember that lupin coffee? Mike H provides an update. Complex and scary: Resources Research picks over the USDA’s supply and demand figures after the heat and drought. USD1 million for ICT in East Africa. Hope they’ll be visiting us. USDA finds ancient cacao variety at altitude in Peru; chocolatiers delighted. “We’ve got a gap between …
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Scientists in the US and Israel have discovered a gene that can boost the protein, iron and zinc levels of modern wheats. It is present in wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides) but somewhere along the way to modern bread and pasta wheats became non-functional. Inserting the gene into modern wheat — by normal …
Global wind patterns shape genetic differentiation, asymmetric gene flow, and genetic diversity in trees. The wind is blowing the answer, my friend. Social network analysis of the genealogy of strawberry: retracing the wild roots of heirloom and modern cultivars. Some 1500 contributors to the current, quite diverse cultivated genepool, from numerous species. Is Domestication Speciation? …
Root anatomical traits of wild-rices reveal links between flooded rice and dryland sorghum. Mine the rice G genome for sorghum-like root traits. The avocado genome informs deep angiosperm phylogeny, highlights introgressive hybridization, and reveals pathogen-influenced gene space adaptation. 2 polyploidy events in its evolution; the Hass is Guatemalan introgressed into Mexican material, recently. Wild leafy …
It was with enormous sadness that I learned last week of the passing away of my friend and colleague Rosa Kambuou. ((The photo at right is from the July 10 edition of The National, one of PNG’s national newspapers. It does not seem to be in the online version. I happened to be in PNG …