Apple cultivars I saw for sale at Kaufland in Brno, Czechia:
Granny Smith
Golden Delicious
Jonagold
Red Delicious
Red Prince
Braeburn
Cripps Pink ("Pink Lady")
Gala
"Cosmic Crisp"
Eva (I think...I might be misremembering this one).
Didn't see any Czech cultivars per se. #FruitToot #Agrobiodiversity #Czechia
This Farmer Changed How I Think About Flour
Interview with a US einkorn farmer. He
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdnX3baMB38 #Agrobiodiversity #Agriculture #Agronomy #Baking
Italian Zucchini: Biodiversity, Science, and Sustainability
Far from being a simple low-calorie vegetable, the Italian courgette represents an exemplary case of agronomic innovation and territorial biodiversityAlthough its genetic roo…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiangourmet #agrobiodiversity #gourmet #gourmetfood #Italia #Italian #ItalianGourmet #Italiangourmetfood #italiano #italy #Zucchini
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2466749/italian-zucchini-biodiversity-science-and-sustainability/
M&E framework for sustainable PGRFA conservation in genebanks
"The conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) is essential for global food and nutrition security, climate resilience and sustainable agriculture. This study presents a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework applied across 20 countries in the Global South to assess the state of ex situ PGRFA conservation."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/plant-genetic-resources/article/me-framework-for-sustainable-pgrfa-conservation-in-genebanks/2D4686CE06258E2EABAE98A3C356C44E #GeneBanks #PlantBreeding #Agrobiodiversity
Are flower strips enough?
Strips of land planted with flowers between fields are much loved: they are beautiful and attract bees and butterflies. But is that enough for #Biodiversity? Researchers at our Uni say more diversity and collaboration across the landscape is needed: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7916
Article in #BiologicalConvervation: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111474
🔓📗 'Patterns of qualitative traits-based diversity and among traits dependencies in cowpea germplasm from the Sahelian and Western highlands agroecological zones of Cameroon: Opportunities for crop conservation and improvement' - an #OpenAccess CABI Agriculture and Bioscience research article on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=4848ecdd-d167-45f6-9a07-6c24bc03320f
#Agrobiodiversity #CowpeaGenetics #CameroonAg #TraitAnalysis
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="P000001">Cowpea is a tropical grain legume with significant contribution to the livelihood of millions of people in developing countries. One hundred cowpea landraces from seven populations in two distinct agroecological zones of Cameroon were screened by means of 20 qualitative traits using a randomised complete block design with three replications. For each qualitative trait, frequencies of identified phenotypic classes were estimated. The number of observed phenotypic class per trait (Na) and Shannon-Weaver diversity (H’) were used to estimate morphological diversity. Considering all landraces, Na varied from 2 (Growth pattern, Plant hairiness, Leaf hairiness and Leaf V marking) to 5 (Growth habits and seed colour) with the overall mean at 3.45. Diversity index (H’) ranged from 0.27 (Leaf hairiness) to 0.83 (Growth habit) with the mean at 0.57. Student t-test showed significant higher diversity for Western compared to Sahelian agroecological origin of accessions. One-way ANOVA showed significant differences of these indices between populations. Partitioning revealed most of the diversity was distributed within agroecological sites (78%) and populations (66%). Cluster analysis assembled the landraces into four clusters with high proportion of landrace sharing similar ecosite grouped together. The genetic distance was affected by geography as Mantel test was significant (R <sup>2</sup> = 0.795; p < 0.010). Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) showed 72.46% and 50.72% of phenotypic variants associated respectively with axis 1 and axis 2, both axes explaining 64.05% of the total variation. Chi-square test revealed that seed colour is dependent on 18 of the 19 remaining traits excluding plant pigmentation. Flower colour, twinning tendency and growth pattern all showed dependence on 16 other qualitative traits. Any pair of traits related to colour, pubescence and shape showed dependence. The genotype named C14 was the only one with no crowded black seed and pendant pod attachment to peduncle. Only KEB-CP008 had pale green leaf colour, KEB-CP013 was unique with splashes of pigments and C9 was the single germplasm with pigmented sutures on immature pods. The outcome of this study confirmed a vast qualitative variation in cowpea from Cameroon across agroecological sites and villages of origin, highlighting a huge potential required for cowpea improvement. </p>
What is the collective noun for squashes, I wonder? A rash of squashes?
Narváez Parra, Aslam - Ilustrador
https://www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/diversidad/alimentos/calabazas
#Agrobiodiversity #Biodiversity #FruitToot #Botany #Agriculture #Mexico @gardening
Participating at the principal investigator meeting of the #CropXR project this afternoon in Ede.
Peter Bourke, Guusje Bonnema, Chris Malipaard and I are supervising a PhD student, Max Wellens, in this project.
https://www.wur.nl/en/persons/max-wellens-1.htm
Max will work on breeding for cultivar mixtures (methodology) and do a genomic prediction on mixture performance for more resilient cropping systems. I will share on his progress here occasionally.
#BreedingForBiodiversity #Agrobiology #GeneticDiversity #Agrobiodiversity #Science
Not sure whether anyone here is interested in genetic, and especially agricultural, biodiversity, but two huge names in the field are those of Erna Bennett and Otto Frankel. A new paper by Julia Nordblad examines their distinct contributions.
Is it possible to epitomize the debate over how to conserve plant genetic resources in terms of the contrasting views of two people? For Julia Nordblad of the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, the answer is a resounding yes. And, as she sets out in a recent paper, the two people … Continue reading "Erna vs Otto"
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