I can't find anything online about the results of the regional Breadfruit Biocultural Conservation Knowledge Exchange ...

There's a nice article in Rising Kashmir highlighting that region's cold-tolerant maize landraces as a unique source of ...

Rapid adaptive increase of amylase gene copy number in Indigenous Andeans. Indigenous Andean populations evolved exceptionally high copy numbers of the AMY1 salivary amylase gene, likely linked to ...

Two articles about the contrasting fortunes of Andean crops came out last week. They describe different sides of the same broad story: Indigenous agricultural systems are highly biodiverse and ...

FAO has a 6-page leaflet out on “Seed systems – Twenty things you need to know.” It’s well-written and comprehensive. These are the 20 things, in case you were wondering: Crop variety loss also ...

Quick follow-up to my post a few days ago on the recent study of the origin of the collard greens grown in the Moroccan oases of the Draa and Ziz valleys. Alas, that might in practice turn out to be ...

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 with 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 ...

Drawing on crop data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Compendium of Forgotten Foods in Africa, CAFRI calculated Nutrient Density (ND) scores for a broad range of African foods, a measure ...

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 skimming reveals that agrobiodiversity does seem to be addressed, at least to ...

Usually, if plant breeders do anything at all with wild species, they use them to try to improve the domesticated relative in some way. But in Bajra–Napier Hybrids (BNH), it’s actually the crop that ...