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Tag: Fonio

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. Africa needs good forest seeds.
    2. And genetic monitoring of the resulting plantings, probably.
    3. The Caribbean also wants quality seed, and thinks a mobile seed bank is the way to get it.
    4. The only mobile things about New Zealand’s genebank are its collectors.
    5. A very mobile donation to the UK’s vegetable genebank.
    6. Nothing very mobile about Slow Beans 2025, but that’s the point.
    7. The long journey of honeysuckle.

    Published on January 20, 2026

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