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Tag: Cassava

Posted on February 17, 2010February 17, 2010

Nibbles: Cassava, fonio, apples, Salicornia, aurochs, seeds

  • Nagib Nassar challenges the wisdom of GM cassava. Cultivate indigenous and wild varieties of the crop!
  • Or fonio (Digitaria exilis). New paper on its diversity.
  • And for dessert? Wild apple diversity?
  • Need salad? How about Salicornia then?
  • Nice aurochs steak to go with the salad?
  • Not too soon to start planning a future harvest, if you’re in Ireland and want seeds.

Fresh Nibbles

    1. The Cayman Islands bets on a genebank of coconut diversity.
    2. The Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT’s genebank bets on growth cabinets to save picky wild bean.
    3. IITA bets on stakeholders to build a better Bambara groundnut. And its genebank, presumably.
    4. The Australian Seed Bank Partnership bets on, well, seeds.
    5. The UAE bets on a PGRFA law.
    6. Ethiopia bet on a national genebank 50 years ago.
    7. People have been betting on the chagra in the Amazon for 4,500 years.

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