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Nibbles: Drought maize, Forage Man, Coffee rescue, Herbarium workflow, Nutrient decline, Hybrid vines, Forest foods, Agrobiodiversity double, Bittman moves on

So, how well did that Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa project do, anyway? Meeting to be held to find out. In the meantime, here’s the infographic. My friend Bob Reid gets an award for his contribution to forage genetic resources conservation and use. Finally doing something about arabica’s lack of diversity. Digitizing herbarium collections? There’s …

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Brainfood: Wheat resistance, Wild barley regeneration, Barley improvement, Maize regeneration, Seed pathogens, Colombian rice management, Malawi diversity & nutrition, Modelling pollinators, Women & seeds, Vietnam development, European agrobiodiversity, CIP sweet potato goes to China, American NUS

Gene bank of sources of spring wheat resistance to leaf-stem diseases. Crop wild relatives to the rescue. Evolutionary History of Wild Barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum) Analyzed Using Multilocus Sequence Data and Paleodistribution Modeling. Recently collected material gives different results to genebank accessions, suggesting geneflow during ex situ maintenance? Barley genetic variation: implications for crop …

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Nibbles: Quinoa, Domestication, Wine, Ants & termites, Pavlovsk

Crops for the Future picks up on quinoa. No comments allowed there, plenty here. Envy? Symposium on Domestication as an evolutionary phenomenon: expanding the synthesis. Usual envy. If you were a god, emperor or one of ancient Rome’s nouveau riche, you’d be drinking Falernian—or maybe a fake. Unusual envy. Ants and termites are the earthworms …

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Nibbles: Worms, Cowpeas, Vavilov, Asian carp, Genebanks, Cassava

DNA splits earthworms. Not many people hurt. Cookin’ up a mess of field peas. Not many people hurt. Talking about N.I. Vavilov at the NAL. I know, I know. He embodies a discredited and outmoded paradigm. But still. “I got hit in the back once,” said Mr. O’Hara. “It left an imprint of a fish.” …

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