A piece in The Tribune, an English-language daily out of Punjab, reminded me that we have discussed crop diversity and flooding quite a bit here over the years. The article, entitled "Community seed ...

I was vaguely aware of the Composite Cross II (CCII) long-term experiment in barley, not least because of a Brainfood entry a couple of years ago. But I didn't know a whole lot about it, so when a ...

Crops with massive ... importance, clear biological upside, and real demand for better genetics -- but a system where breeding remains small, underfunded, and structurally difficult to scale. What ...

Moving house is never any fun, but it’s particularly tricky for collections of crop diversity. You have to get the new facilities all ready, hundreds or even thousands of seed packets or test tubes or ...

I haven't yet had a chance to read the full FAO–WMO joint report on Extreme heat and agriculture, but some preliminary ...

And here’s close-up on West Africa, because that’s where accessions are densest, and the suggested “gaps” a little more difficult to understand. Asked for a justification, this is what the LLM came up ...

The resurrection of the Carolina African Runner peanut has been greeted with joy throughout the land. [1] That it came to America with enslaved people from West Africa is undisputed; few people, ...

The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) awarded Dr. Diane Ragone, founder and director emerita of NTBG’s Breadfruit Institute 1, the 2024 David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration. Dr. Ragone ...

Relocating is never any fun, but it's particularly tricky for collections of crop diversity. You have to get the new facilities all ready, and all those seeds or test tubes or indeed live plants need ...

A LinkedIn post by CGIAR stalwart Dr Carlo Fadda convinced me I should give more exposure to the recent paper Long-term agricultural diversification increases financial profitability, biodiversity, ...

I’m sure you enjoyed Jeremy’s fascinating conversation with Jordan Rosenblum on how the pig and the eagle diverged as the history of Jewish dietary law and custom played out. Which means you’d ...

In his recent paper in Plant Genetic Resources, Reimagining the Role of National Genebanks: Purposes, Priorities, and Programs, Cary Fowler offers a refreshingly blunt intervention for the world’s ...