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Nibbles: Quinoa, Another quinoa, Old Apple Tree, “Anglo-Saxon” ag, SADC...

The results of the 2nd International Quinoa Research Symposium are up on YouTube. I was today years old when I learned there’s a quinoa in Taiwan. REALLY old English Greening apple tree dies. Sad:...

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Nibbles: Payment for services, Spud pix, Botanical paintings, Local food,...

Paying for the conservation of quinoa varieties. Not sure I’d pay for some of these potato photos. Would definitely pay for some of these botanical illustrations. Local food pays, just not necessarily...

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Nibbles: Quinoa info, Hybrid rye, New tobacco, GMOs

If you’re into quinoa, you’re probably going to need this directory. Hybrid rye is becoming a useful participant in maize-soybean rotations in the Corn Belt where giant ragweed is a problem. New...

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Nibbles: Apple diversity, Quinoa diversity, Potato diversity, Indian coconut,...

The need to diversify apple breeding. Unlikely pean to the world quinoa core collection. I believe we may have blogged about it. And the Commonwealth Potato Collection rounds off today’s trifecta of...

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Brainfood: Mapping double, Niche modelling, CGIAR impacts, Pathogen genebank,...

Conservation needs to break free from global priority mapping. Couldn’t agree more. And less. National climate and biodiversity strategies are hamstrung by a lack of maps. Wait, what? The evolutionary...

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Brainfood: Racism, Writing, QMS, Andean ag, Root breeding, Apple microbiome,...

Overcoming racism in the twin spheres of conservation science and practice. Imagine. Getting accepted – Successful writing for scientific publication: a Research Primer for low- and middle-income...

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Brainfood: Neodomestication, Millet diets, OFSP, Fruits, Okra core, Floating...

Scaling up neodomestication for climate-ready crops. Ok, but when is enough enough? Can Feeding a Millet-Based Diet Improve the Growth of Children? — A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Yes. So...

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Nibbles: Diets, Millet seedbank, Healthy rice, Kazakh genebank, Decentralized...

And…we’re back! Nice new infographics derived from that classic paper “Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security.” Video on a millet community seedbank in...

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Brainfood: PGRFA prioritization, Endangerment value, Geo-genetic...

Prioritizing Colombian plant genetic resources for investment in research using indicators about the geographic origin, vulnerability status, economic benefits, and food security importance. Out of...

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Brainfood: Breeding edition

Climate-resilient crops: Lessons from xerophytes. Breeding for Na+ exclusion to improve salinity tolerance in crops has compromised their drought tolerance, but both tolerances are down to more gene...

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