Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Xylella has an insta. Check out also XF-actors. How did I miss the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative website? Even has the biodiversity soil atlas on there. They’re on Twitter too, of course, as is their director, Dr Monica Farfan. Latest Bambu & Rattan Update from INBAR. Check out in particular Prof. Terry Sunderland on African …
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Image-Based Goat Breed Identification and Localization Using Deep Learning. Fancy maths can identify goat breeds from photos. Ok, cool, now what? AI Naturalists Might Hold the Key to Unlocking Biodiversity Data in Social Media Imagery. Fancy math can often identify common flowers on Flickr. Ok, cool, now what? FoodMine: Exploring Food Contents in Scientific Literature. …
The future is community seedbanks. The past was crop mixtures. Among other things: two-year-old reviews of books on 18th century agriculture re-upped. The future is trees. But they need help, hence these resources. Australia looks to native tree seeds for its future. No help needed. There will probably be a crop pandemic in the future. …
The Xylella butcher’s bill mounts up. Webinar on the Plant Treaty. The history of the humble: potato, sweetpotato, guinea pig. Agroforestry in the forest. Unilever does C labelling. Biodiversity next? Hacking apomixis in sorghum and cowpea so farmers can save seeds of hybrids. Temperature range and plant host range of fungus and oomycete pathogens change …
Delayed luminescence of seeds: are shining seeds viable? Maybe, but more research needed. Explaining the spatial scale of campesino agriculture in Mexico: Implications for the supply and conservation of native maize. Maize is not just for subsistence; never has been. Impact of Xylella fastidiosa subspecies pauca in European olives. Fancy maths says olives are doomed. …