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Nibbles: Ag research impact, Old foods, GMOs, Barcoding, Palms (well it is Easter), Medicinal plants, Passion fruits, Markets, Livestock, Chaffey, Wine and CC, Coffee culture

“…for many for many smallholder farmers little has changed over the decades in terms of the methods and tools they use.” Geoff Tansey would seem to agree. Nobody has told ACIAR, though. Cherfas favourite spread bog butter among oldest food finds. Why it is silly to say that GMOs are always bad. The Star Trek …

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Brainfood: Diverse grasslands, More diverse grasslands, Latitudinal meta-gradients, Acacia barcoding, Cryoconserving recalcitrant seeds, Tree tomato, Modeling parasites, Landscape complexity & services, Genomics & breeding

Transgressive overyielding of soil microbial biomass in a grassland plant diversity gradient. Dead link. More microbial biomass in mixtures of plants than in each of the monocultures. Which I guess is a good thing? Ecosystem function enhanced by combining four functional types of plant species in intensively managed grassland mixtures: a 3-year continental-scale field experiment. …

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Brainfood: Barcoding, DArT for beans, SNOPs for Cacao, Aquaculture impacts, Cassava GS, Cereals in genebanks, Symbiosis

A critical review on the utility of DNA barcoding in biodiversity conservation. Not bad, but not by itself. A whole genome DArT assay to assess germplasm collection diversity in common beans. It works, and can distinguish Andean from Mesoamerican accessions. Optimization of a SNP assay for genotyping Theobroma cacao under field conditions. It works, and …

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Brainfood: Lupin restoration, Balkan wheat drought tolerance, Metabarcoding, Wild sheep genetics, Organic vegetables, Diversity protects, Sorghum geneflow, Wild sunflower genetics

A Molecular and Fitness Evaluation of Commercially Available versus Locally Collected Blue Lupine Lupinus perennis L. Seeds for Use in Ecosystem Restoration Efforts. Commercial seed sources can be dodgy, and that’s a problem. Comparison of responses to drought stress of 100 wheat accessions and landraces to identify opportunities for improving wheat drought resistance. 20 Balkan …

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Nibbles: Oil palm, Breadfruit, Barcoding, Guyana genebank, Wheat and heat

Palmhugger, an oilpalm advocacy group, likens Greenpeace to Goebbels. Who are they really? CIFOR is linking to them on Facebook, so they’re probably kosher, right? Nice story on breadfruit in Hawaii. More barcoding stuff. Reader: We must have a bank of seeds of our fruits and vegetables. Minister of Agriculture: We do! Australian wheat boffins: …

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