Nibbles: Bees, Oysters, Herbals, Svalbard
US honeybees really in trouble. Europeans also worried. Chesapeake oyster, on the other hand, are recovering. Series of posts on old herbals. Q&A on Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Nibbles: Detecting diseases, Better bees, Millet milestone, Passenger pigeon, Land rights, Mongol mayhem, Jumping genes
Sensors for volatile organic compounds will detect crop diseases for ya. Then a drone comes in and zaps them? Breeding better bees. “So why not simply replace the traditional variety with Dhanshakti?” Answers on a postcard, please. Bringing back the passenger pigeon. The impact of land rights around the world. Including on conservation of agricultural …
Nibbles: Intensification, Wheat, Bees crisis
Liberation: Proof, if proof were needed, that what you really need to snaffle EU funding is an acronym. Not just yields but nutritional value of staple crop threatened by climate change. Bee crisis still bad news for agriculture. Bee crisis still good news for researchers.
Nibbles: Potato journeys, European collections, European bees, Wheat breeding, Mountains, Forest restoration, Tall trees, Symbioses, Guanaco reintroduction, Plant genomes, Improving GBIF, 2 sides of beef
The European encounter with the potato. A Google Earth tour by Jorge L. Alonso, and really rather fun. In Spanish. The European encounter with virtual germplasm collections. AEGIS takes another step. The European encounter with the honeybee. Bad news for the latter. The European encounter with wheat. Its promiscuity will save us. Wheat’s, that is, …
Nibbles: Bees, Okra, Horsemeat, Monoculture, CWRs mapped, Barley, PB&J
Colony collapse disorder. It’s still complicated. The Botanist in the Kitchen is at it again, with an in-depth treatment of okra, slime and chocolate. But seriously, why don’t Anglo-Saxons eat equids? It’s all down to religion. Nigeria embraces UNCTAD report that warns against monoculture. An interactive map of crop wild relatives. If it showed barley …
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