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1 day ago

Brainfood: Rice breeding, Cowpea diversity, Sorghum pangenome, Faba bean genome, Banana wild relative, Cassava breeding, Seed laws, Microbiome double 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 rese...

Brainfood: Rice breeding, Cowpea diversity, Sorghum pangenome, Faba bean genome, Banana wild relative, Cassava breeding, Seed laws, Microbiome double

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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#conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #seeds #nutrition #biodiversity

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Agrobiodiverse

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1 week ago

Brainfood: Yield double, NUS double, Wild food plants, NbS, Portuguese genebanks, School meals, Indian nutrition, Nutritional diversity trifecta Releasing agriculture from the food security mandate. Research should focus toward sustaining production means and farmer welfare, rather than area productivity. Beyond yields: a systems approach is e...

Brainfood: Yield double, NUS double, Wild food plants, NbS, Portuguese genebanks, School meals, Indian nutrition, Nutritional diversity trifecta – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/brai...

#genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #nutrition #seeds

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Agrobiodiverse

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2 weeks ago

Unchaining genebanks Can the food processing industry contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity? Of course it can. Even in genebanks? Sure, why not. There's no reason beyond a failure...

Unchaining genebanks – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/unch...

#genebanks #conservation #markets #agrobiodiversity #seeds #biodiversity

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Agrobiodiverse

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2 weeks ago

Brainfood: History edition Phylogenetics and evolution of Digitaria grasses, including cereal crops fonio, raishan and Polish millet. The history of wild Digitaria goes back 2–6 million years. Biogeography of Crop Progenitors a...

Brainfood: History edition

Just let me have my little fun...

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#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds

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Agrobiodiverse

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2 weeks ago

Nibbles: Agricultural expansion maps, Brassica diversity, Not against the grain, South African seedbanks, Safer peanuts, Diné seedbank Agriculture is bad for natural ecosystems. But great for maps, you have to admit. Greens are good for you. And this is a great roundup of the latest scholarship on brassica evolution, domestication an...

Nibbles: Agricultural expansion maps, Brassica diversity, Not against the grain, South African seedbanks, Safer peanuts, Diné seedbank

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

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Agrobiodiverse

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2 weeks ago

These seeds are from the government, and they’re here to help you In his recent paper in Plant Genetic Resources, Reimagining the Role of National Genebanks: Purposes, Priorities, and Programs, Cary Fowler offers a refreshingly blunt intervention for the world’s nat...

These seeds are from the government, and they’re here to help you – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/thes...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #plantbreeding #seeds

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Agrobiodiverse

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3 weeks ago

Nibbles: Online seeds, Yam breeding, Rice genebanks, Indian commmunity seed banks, Sikkim banana, Cassava disease, ICARDA genebank, Tajikistan women The perils of dematerialization play out in India. Is YamHub dematerialization? Rice genebanks in Bangladesh and at IRRI are pretty solid. There's a pretty solid platform for India's community seed ba...

Nibbles: Online #seeds, Yam breeding, Rice #genebanks, Indian commmunity seed banks, Sikkim banana, Cassava disease, ICARDA genebank, Tajikistan women – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/nibb...

#agrobiodiversity

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Agrobiodiverse

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3 weeks ago

Brainfood: Restoration edition Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation. Better mapping shows there is less land available for reforestation than we thought, and there a...

Brainfood: Restoration edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/brai...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

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Agrobiodiverse

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3 weeks ago

A home for genebank training at last? 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...

A home for genebank training at last? – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/a-ho...

#genebanks #training #conservation #agrobiodiversity

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Agrobiodiverse

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4 weeks ago

Crowdsourcing crop diversity, and information A couple of crowd-sourcing initiatives caught my eye. First, the good people at the COUSIN project want to expand genebank collections of wild relatives of wheat, barley, lettuce, brassica, and peas i...

Crowdsourcing crop diversity, and information – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/crow...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity

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Agrobiodiverse

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4 weeks ago

Brainfood: Genetic erosion edition Crop diversity trends captured by Indigenous and local knowledge: introduction to the symposium. A whole symposium on how Indigenous knowledge reveals widespread loss of traditional crops and landrace...

Brainfood: Genetic erosion edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/brai...
#genebanks #conservation #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity

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Agrobiodiverse

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1 month ago

Agro-tour de force I've been very interested in the intersection between tourism and agrobiodiversity conservation ever since I was (admittedly tangentially) involved in the late, great Marleni Ramirez's Adventures in A...

Agro-tour de force – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/agro...

#conservation #agrobiodiversity #genebanks #tourism

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Agrobiodiverse

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1 month ago

Brainfood: Diversity of Sugarcane, Rice, Lentils, Olives, Sweetpotato, Cassava, Beans, Buckwheat, Pigeon pea, Landscapes The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane. The genome of modern sugarcane is a mosaic of wild introgressions, including on...

Brainfood: Diversity of Sugarcane, Rice, Lentils, Olives, Sweetpotato, Cassava, Beans, Buckwheat, Pigeon pea, Landscapes – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/brai...

#agrobiodiversity #conservation #genebanks #biodiversity #seeds

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FunctionalProgramming

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1 month ago

Original post on agro.biodiver.se

Brainfood: Diversity of Sugarcane, Rice, Lentils, Olives, Sweetpotato, Cassava, Beans, Buckwheat, Pigeon pea, Landscapes The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, divers...

#Archaeology #Brainfood #Breeding #DNA #Domestication #Genebanks #Genetic #diversity […]

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FunctionalProgramming

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1 month ago

Original post on agro.biodiver.se

Brainfood: Diversity of Sugarcane, Rice, Lentils, Olives, Sweetpotato, Cassava, Beans, Buckwheat, Pigeon pea, Landscapes The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, divers...

#Archaeology #Brainfood #Breeding #DNA #Domestication #Genebanks #Genetic #diversity […]

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Agrobiodiverse

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1 month ago

Nibbles: Family farming, Banana diversity, Logotonu Waqainabete, ICARDA genebank women, SOTW3 in Africa "Our traditional crops are not just food. They are life. They are our ancestors’ legacy and our children’s inheritance." "Banana diversity is not only a scientific or agricultural asset — it is the se...

Nibbles: Family farming, Banana diversity, Logotonu Waqainabete, ICARDA genebank women, SOTW3 in Africa – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/nibb...

#agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #WomenInScience #conservation #genebanks

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Agrobiodiverse

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1 month ago

An opportunity for Pacific opportunity crops Think you can help the Pacific make the most of its lesser-known crops? Apply for a cool job at SPC.

An opportunity for Pacific opportunity crops – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/an-o...

#genebanks #conservation #neglectedcrops #opportunitycrops

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Agrobiodiverse

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2 months ago

Genebank data at a crossroads 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 i...

Genebank data at a crossroads – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/gene...

#genebanks #datamanagement #conservation #biodiversity

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Agrobiodiverse

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2 months ago

Agriculture rooted in genebanks, kinda 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 imp...

Agriculture rooted in genebanks, kinda – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/agri...

#conservation #biodiversity #cropdiversity #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #worldbank

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Agrobiodiverse

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2 months ago

Nibbles: Restoration, Monitoring, CARDI, Margot Forde, Warwick, Slow Beans 2025, Lonicera Africa needs good forest seeds. And genetic monitoring of the resulting plantings, probably. The Caribbean also wants quality seed, and thinks a mobile seed bank is the way to get it. The only mobile ...

Nibbles: Restoration, Monitoring, CARDI, Margot Forde, Warwick, Slow Beans 2025, Lonicera – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/nibb...

#conservation #biodiversity #cropdiversity #genebanks #forests #restoration #vegetables #honeysuckle #beans

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Agrobiodiverse

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2 months ago

Frozen 2: This time it’s crop diversity Speaking of breadfruit... Seeds are the ... ahem ... bread and butter of traditional genebanks: dry them, chill them, and they’ll keep for decades. But the seeds of many important crops don’t play nic...

Frozen 2: This time it’s crop diversity – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/froz...

#conservation #biodiversity #cryopreservation #cropdiversity #genebanks

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Agrobiodiverse

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4 months ago

Nibbles: Ukraine duplication, Mexican native maize, Andean agriculture double, Campanian crops double, Pacific cryobank, Moringa promotion A little more safety for Ukraine's seeds, thanks to a new genebank. A little more safety for Mexico's native maize, thanks to Pres. Sheinbaum. A little more safety for Andean agriculture, thanks to Ec...

Nibbles: Ukraine duplication, Mexican native maize, Andean agriculture double, Campanian crops double, Pacific cryobank, Moringa promotion – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/11/nibb...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity

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Agrobiodiverse

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5 months ago

Nibbles: Fiona Hay, Richard Ellis, FAO exhibition, Peasants, Wheat breeding, Svalbard, Søren Ejlersen, Ephraim Bull, Heirloom apples, Caffeine, Collards history Dr Fiona Hay, seed scientist, on why we need genebanks. Prof. Richard Ellis retires. A genebank legend, as Fiona would probably agree. FAO exhibition goes From Seeds to Foods. By way of genebanks, no ...

Nibbles: Fiona Hay, Richard Ellis, FAO exhibition, Peasants, Wheat breeding, Svalbard, Søren Ejlersen, Ephraim Bull, Heirloom apples, Caffeine, Collards history – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb...

#conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds

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Agrobiodiverse

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5 months ago

There’s a webinar on the EU's knowledge review of Neglected & Underutilized Species on 15 October. Maybe somebody will mention why previous cycles of interest petered out?

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#opportunitycrops #conservation #genebanks

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Agrobiodiverse

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6 months ago

Those who cannot remember the past of NUS… The European Commission has waded into the whole opportunity crops thing with its "Neglected and Underutilised Species (NUS): Potential for Food and Nutrition Security – a Knowledge Review." Only, as ...

Those who cannot remember the past of NUS… – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/thos...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #seeds

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Agrobiodiverse

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6 months ago

Brainfood: Breeding edition Unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring missing nutrition to elite grains. A solution for better nutrition. Characterization of Oryza glaberrima derived genetic resources for stagnant flooding t...

Brainfood: Crop diversity has a solution for almost anything...

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brai...

#plantbreeding #conservation #seedsaving #genebanks

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Agrobiodiverse

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6 months ago

Nibbles: Ancient Mexican seedbank, Indian millets, Foraged foods, Soybean breeding, Apple breeding, Albanian heirlooms, Bangladesh fish genebank People in the Nejapan Sierra Sur in Oaxaca, Mexico had a seed bank 400-700 years ago so they could re-create their complex cuisine after disruptions. How MSSRF revived millets in Odisha, India. You th...

Nibbles: Seed banks everywhere edition...

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#genebanks #conservation #seeds #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity #seedsaving #heirlooms

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Agrobiodiverse

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6 months ago

Nibbles: Ancient Mexican seedbank, Indian millets, Foraged foods, Soybean breeding, Apple breeding, Albanian heirlooms, Bangladesh fish genebank People in the Nejapan Sierra Sur in Oaxaca, Mexico had a seed bank 400-700 years ago so they could re-create their complex cuisine after disruptions. How MSSRF revived millets in Odisha, India. You th...

Nibbles: Ancient Mexican seedbank, Indian millets, Foraged foods, Soybean breeding, Apple breeding, Albanian heirlooms, Bangladesh fish genebank – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/nibb...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #seedsaving #seedbank #plantbreeding

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Agrobiodiverse

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6 months ago

Brainfood: Taxonomic identification, Niche mapping, Drones, Phenomics, Yield analysis Review of herbarium plant identification of crop wild relatives using convolutional neural network models. Cool tech helps you figure out which species is which. Now you can map them properly I guess....

Brainfood: Tech helping #genebanks with...

Taxonomic identification, Niche mapping, Drones, Phenomics, Yield analysis...

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

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#conservation #technology #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity #heirloomseeds

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Agrobiodiverse

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6 months ago

Brainfood: Genebank metrics, Genebank reviews, Botanic gardens ABS, Genebank practical guides, Germplasm User Groups A Proposal for Genebank Metrics to Enhance Collection Management. A framework of 10 mandatory and 38 optional metrics for orthodox-seed genebank collections (covering size, documentation, conservation...

Earlier this week I posted a roundup of papers describing recent improvements to the "software" of #genebanks agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brai.... Next Monday, it's the turn of genebank "hardware." Keep up to date: agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/how-...

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