Virtual veggie visit
Want to know what happens in a genebank? Do you have 8 minutes to spare? More on the UK Vegetable Genebank for those who prefer to read. No word on whether breeding vegetables is as tough as potatoes.
Nibbles: Value edition
Peru to give value to its biodiversity. Germany already has, 500 years ago. Cavendish bananas have a lot of value, but that won’t save them. The UK’s vegetables genebank is very valuable. But you can always add more value to genebank collections if you evaluate them, like IRRI’s going to do in an expensive new …
Parsnip seeds of success
Whatever the ICRAF genebank can do to get germplasm out there, the Warwick Crop Centre can also do, though admittedly these seem to be improved varieties, developed in collaboration with the private sector: Seed packs to celebrate @warwickuni50 – and highlights @WarwickLifeSci @WarwickCrop and @Elsomsseeds partnerships pic.twitter.com/Y4mukYZ7RQ — UKVGB (@WarwickGRU) September 24, 2015
Wellesbourne set for the next 5 years
If there was ever any doubt about the future of the UK’s vegetables genebank at Wellesbourne, this should settle it: Warwick Crop Centre at the University of Warwick has won a five year contract from Defra to continue to host the UK Vegetable Genebank at the University’s Wellesbourne Campus. Good news, as far as it …
Botanic gardens conserve crop diversity too, two.
Speaking of social media, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh just published an interesting post entitled Botanic gardens conserve crop diversity too. ((Great title.)) The crux of the matter is that RBGE tweeted about having collected some wild relatives of cabbages and other veg. A picture of one cabbage caught Luigi’s eye, as pictures of wild relatives …
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