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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here we have focused on the living collections data ecosystem, because many aspects to managing these collections are unique within the broader collections sector. But we can look to the more advanced ...

A couple of quick announcements today that I don’t want to get lost in Nibbles. First, there’s an International Conference on Agrobiodiversity going on in Nepal. I just found out about it, but it’s ...

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 ...

Long-time readers will know that I regularly try to roundup training opportunities in crop diversity conservation, basically because nobody else does it. Well, maybe I can stop doing that now. Yes, it ...