The usual way wild species are used in breeding is to improve their domesticated relatives. But in Bajra–Napier Hybrids (BNH), it’s the crop that is used to improve the wild, or at least wilder, ...
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, ...
From Jeremy’s latest newsletter. To which of course you should subscribe. You’ll see he mentions Charles Darwin right up front, which allows me to link to a new course based on teaching materials ...
Linking genetic gains to food security outcomes: An assessment of IRRI’S rice breeding efforts in the Philippines and Indonesia. Plant breeding is a marathon, not a sprint. Scaling up orphan crop ...
A LinkedIn post by CGIAR stalwart Dr Carlo Fadda convinced me I should give a bit more exposure to a recent paper than the brief Brainfood entry I wrote about it a few weeks ago. The paper is ...
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 ...
I spent all last week at the 20th Session of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources in Rome: “[t]he Commission is the only permanent intergovernmental body that specifically addresses all components ...
In his latest Eat This Newsletter, Jeremy deconstructs a paper on Tiggiano and Polignano heriloom carrots… Culturally, each landrace is associated with a local patron saint, St Vitus in Polignano and ...
Ok, sure, maybe the Plant Treaty needs “enhancement,” and the results of its recent Governing Body meeting may have been a tad disappointing. But its achievements are undeniable, and very well ...
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 ...
A chickpea genetic variation map based on the sequencing of 3,366 genomes. Where the good and the bad alleles are. Even The Economist is impressed. Crop Wild Relatives Crosses: Multi-Location ...
Genebanks have a communication problem: they are a do-something-for-tomorrow thing in a something-must-be-done-now world. Well, it turns out that some important people are increasingly seeing these ...
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