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My name is Luigi Guarino and I post mainly on the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity. Especially, but not exclusively, in genebanks. I live in Germany and Kenya. Check out my blog: https://agro.biodiver.se
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Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(A) Genomic inbreeding coefficient (FROH) of imputed and modern dogs plotted as a function of time, calculated based on ROH. Imputed samples are colored based on their geographic grouping, while modern samples are colored in gray. A loess regression was applied with each colored shaded area depicting the SE. (B) Total number of ROH segments plotted against total ROH length for the imputed dogs. Colors correspond to age of imputed samples in years before present (ybp)., while modern samples belonging to each dog group are colored in gray. (C) Map of imputed dog samples colored by their inbreeding coefficient (FROH). Samples with FROH values above 0.1 are indicated.
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Global Crop Diversity Day opens at the @cipotato.org in Lima ahead of @planttreaty.bsky.social GB 11

Co-hosted by the Crop Trust, CIP and Plant Treaty, it features:
🌱 The first deposit to CIP’s cryo genebank
🌱 Launch of Vegetables4Life initiative
🌱 Expert discussions

@cgiar.org #biodiversity
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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cristianvlad.bsky.social Cristian Vlad @cristianvlad.bsky.social · 20d
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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In 1700s Britain tea was in such high demand it was often counterfeited - with local plants mixed with turpentine, paint and sheep dung. This book shows an authentic Chinese tea leaf (bottom left) in comparison with 'spurious' substitute leaves

Find out more in Hooked www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...
Printed black and white illustration of tea making equipment. Two tea caddies are in the centre, surrounded by images of different leaves
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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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
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...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it
September 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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"Agricultural biodiversity is not a luxury; it is our insurance policy against an uncertain future."
www.fao.org/plant-treaty...

#ITPGRFA GB meets in #megadiverse Peru

@planttreaty.bsky.social
@AgroBioDiverse.bsky.social
@CoventryCAWR.bsky.social

#FarmersRights
#Agroecology
#FoodSovereignty
In the Andean highlands, farming communities continue to cultivate seeds and tubers stewarded by their ancestors over centuries—genetic resources that are rightfully theirs. Yet the growing risk of digital biopiracy threatens to erode their Farmers’ Rights and the sovereignty embedded in these living legacies.
October 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Restoring land can help build peace.

In Somalia, UNEP and IOM - UN Migration projects backed by Germany show how #ClimateAction can ease resource conflicts and strengthen security.

Here are some lessons learned: https://bit.ly/47BRf8k

#BCSC2025
October 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Nibbles: Millennium #Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana #genebank – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb...
Nibbles: Millennium Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana genebank
King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank and... ...Cate Blanchett. Or read about it in The Economist. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm Syste...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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🌱 Tomorrow we launch Plant Science Wales at the National Botanic Garden of Wales!

Explore seed banks, herbarium tours & panels on agri-tech, biophilia & more.

Organised by IBERS & NBGW, supported by the Learned Society of Wales. Follow for behind-the-scenes & speaker highlights!
October 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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lvhicks.bsky.social Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · Oct 18
Here's a video of the Bayeux Tapestry being carefully removed from its case and packed away. I had my heart in my mouth while watching. And yes, I do have nightmares about it crossing the channel! I had my heart in my mouth just watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ys...
Extraction de la TAPISSERIE DE BAYEUX - 18 09 2025
YouTube video by Bayeux Museum
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October 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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hellohistoria.bsky.social Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · Jul 16
This is something we can all agree on 🤝🏻📚🔍

📷 strange_aeons_

#History
October 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Dept. of Good to Have it Confirmed

"There are hundreds of different large-scale wine scandals that suggest the institutions responsible for reviewing, rating, and certifying wine don’t deserve the reputations they pride themselves on."

www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-myth-o...

#wine
The Myth of the Sommelier
Is there an art to wine tasting? Do the best tasters really know best?
www.cremieux.xyz
October 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
agrobiodiverse.bsky.social
Brainfood: Data edition...

Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog

agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...
Brainfood: Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data
Consistent global dataset on biodiversity intactness footprint of agricultural production from 2000 to 2020. Spatial dataset shows how global consumption drives ecological degradation. Rapid monitorin...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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In keeping with one of the newsletter items, can’t wait to see what Tip-Top Tariffs makes of the UK’s latest crop breakthrough, assuming they eventually get enough to export.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer
Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.
www.bbc.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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
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 ...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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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?

knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/event/neglec...

#opportunitycrops #conservation #genebanks
October 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Those who cannot remember the past of NUS… – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/thos...

#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #seeds
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 ...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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annieleymarie.bsky.social
No, "the world's taste for soya" isn't to blame: most people won't taste any soya, but the meat, dairy, eggs and fish produced very inefficiently with the soya as feed.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social often says: "If you want to eat less soya [to help save the Amazon], eat soya!" shorturl.at/bOvl1
September 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Brainfood: Crop diversity has a solution for almost anything...

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

#plantbreeding #conservation #seedsaving #genebanks
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...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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‘Cima di cola’ reaches a milestone, apparently – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/cima...
‘Cima di cola’ reaches a milestone, apparently
So it seems the first vegetable variety from Puglia has been added to Italy's Registro nazionale delle varietà da conservazione, or National Register of Conservation Varieties. The ‘Cima di cola’, a c...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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And herе come the managers to hit us on the sly
And tinpot generals with glory in their eyes
Owners, moaners, Judases and Janes
But righteousness is in our eyes, we've got no time for games
September 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Eat This Newsletter 283

* “What They Ate Was Disgusting, Filthy, and Backward”
* “A Cabal of Dark Forces”
* “An Increasingly Landless Agricultural System”
* “Bad News for Farmers”
* “Health Honeys”

Read it for free at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...

#newsletter #food #agriculture
Eat This Newsletter 283: Odious
Hello I am reliably informed I showed no aversion to stinky cheeses as an infant. Apologies in advance if you find any of this issue’s items revolting,...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM