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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. Johnny Appleseed basically set up fruit tree genebanks 200 years ago.
    2. Modern fruit tree genebanks could probably learn something from Mr Appleseed.
    3. Is there a Mr Lycheeseed, I wonder?
    4. There are probably some fruit tree collections at the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute.
    5. Saudi Arabia is betting on tree genebanks. Maybe even fruit tree genebanks.
    6. All genebanks need to share their data, according to the guy in charge of helping European genebanks share their data.
    7. Can you put a value on genebanks? Should you?

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