Is genebank data having a moment? Well, it's a pretty big thing that the botanic gardens community have basically said that they need a Genesys too, and in a hugely co-authored "Perspective" article ...

Diverse Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA) are an important aspect of biodiversity and greater investment in both in-situ and ex-situ conservation of genetic material will be ...

Want to know what AI makes of the above? “Genebanks are sharpening their tools: new metrics set benchmarks for performance, peer reviews foster collaboration, and the Plant Treaty offers clearer rules ...

The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund has a small grants program and I hear they are looking for more applications targeting crop wild relatives. The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation ...

Where are we with the whole enhancing the functioning of the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System thing? I’m glad you asked. You’ll remember that… [h]istorically, parties have been divided between ...

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 ...

In a recent post here I suggested that, despite frequent recourse to the comparison, genebanks are in fact not much like libraries, at least when it comes to deciding which of their contents can ...

How can you get humble heirloom varieties of the humble potato back into cultivation? Well, fortunately, Potato News Today 1 has a handy step-by-step guide, which I reproduce verbatim below: Sounds ...

Jeremy’s latest Eat This Newsletter has a piece on Dumbarton Oaks’ Plant of the Month feature on breadfruit. And much else besides. Do have a look. In contrast to Jeremy, I myself have knowingly eaten ...

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 ...

Epic narratives of the Green Revolution in Brazil, China, and India. Symbols, heroes, heritage-making and we-will-do-it-even-better-next-time in the service of self-preservation and self-assertion.

It might be because we happen to be doing something on the coffee diversity conservation strategy at work, but I have been noticing a lot of joe-related material online lately. There’s the bit on ...