Re Orphan crops "Middle-class consumers may not know how to prepare them. Urban markets may not value them. Food processors may not see commercial opportunities ... The most effective intervention may not be a breeding programme but a chef, an entrepreneur, a recipe book or a social media campaign."
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition to help the tomato – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/no-o...
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Nibbles: NSW genebank, Ghana genebank, Community seed bank standards, Kenya legislation, Valuing diversity, BBC on potato, Ube yams in Philippines, Strawberry anatomy and history – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/nibb...
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Our first study from the Hasli Outdoor Mesocosm Experiment (HOME) is out!!
Here we focus on plant responses to extreme heat and drought during the first two years of the experiment, and we found that fast- and slow-growing plants fully recovered to drought
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Himalayan maize landraces are a treasure trove of climate-ready diversity, but understanding where they’re grown and conserving them before they disappear is just as important as studying their genes.
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Another genebank in Australia. Unclear how it relates to the existing ones. Ghana's genebank in funding trouble. How to run a community seed bank, according to the Bureau of Indian Standards. Apparent...
A recent episode of Eat This Podcast explored why the tomato, first recorded in England in the 1590s, took more than a century to become an important food. The explanation offered was that it took a c...
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The Broad Spectrum Species: Plant Use and Processing as Deep Time Adaptations. Hundreds of plant species, many now forgotten, show up in archaeological assemblages stretching back tens of thousands of...
A site of tragedy for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has become a place of renewal and promise. The tribe has worked for the past seven years to revitalize the land of the 1863 Bear Rive...
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In a 2-year outdoor mesocosm experiment, slow- and fast-growing grassland plants exhibit biomass-trait decoupling 1 month after drought, particularly under warmed conditions. This decoupling disappea....
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There's a nice article in Rising Kashmir highlighting that region's cold-tolerant maize landraces as a unique source of genetic diversity. What I liked about it is that it doesn't condescend to its au...
A quick search on Genesys revealed 302 maize accessions from above 1500 masl in the Himalayas, and 62 above 2500 masl. Of course, there are many more maize accessions from high altitudes in Central an...
Genome-wide comparative diversity uncovers population structure, global distribution, and targets of selection in hexaploid oat. A worldwide survey reveals how oat diversity is structured, spread, and...
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I decided to dig a little deeper into the climatic adaptation of Himalayan maize. You may remember from my last post on this that Genesys has 96 maize accessions from over 2000 masl in the Himalayas, ...
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition to help the tomato – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/06/no-o...
#genebanks #conservation #opportunitycrops #diversification #agrobiodiversity
A recent episode of Eat This Podcast explored why the tomato, first recorded in England in the 1590s, took more than a century to become an important food. The explanation offered was that it took a c...
