Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
OK, so we don’t have the clout or industry standing of The Financial Express, of Tropicana Tower (4th floor), 45, Topkhana Road, GPO Box 2526 Dhaka–1000, Bangladesh. But we have our pride. So when we saw this paragraph in a major outburst of nationalistic pride concerning Kasalath rice … Well, we were just a tad …
Dr Sigrid Heuer of IRRI, the lead author of the rice paper we blogged about a few days back, and which elicited quite some discussion as regards the country of origin of the material identified as having high P use efficiency, has just contributed a long comment. Thank you very much for the lively discussion …
The conversation about Kasalath rice continues, with some actual information about the accession in question. The back story has kinda sorta made its way into the mainstream media too. Reuters published the picture below yesterday (30 August). A scientist locates the rice variety kasalath inside the gene bank at the International Rice Research Institute in …
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Prospects for forest-based ecosystem services in forest-coffee mosaics as forest loss continues in southwestern Ethiopia. Coffee agroforests provide about half to two thirds of the ecosystem services of plain old forests. Social Process of Adaptation to Environmental Changes: How Eastern African Societies Intervene between Crops and Climate. Your seeds may not be able to cut …
IRRI DG on the Kasalath story and its wider implications. French collect fonio. Glad someone is. CIAT bean breeder complains about having too much diversity to play with. Caribbean needs a regional genebank, catalogue of germplasm. What, still? Improving cotton in Texas one (or two) chromosomes at the time. Managing livestock-predator conflicts. The name of …