It's a great pleasure to help Jeremy's latest newsletter amplify the work of the Culinary Breeding Network. There's other interesting stuff in there, so check it out. A very different approach to ...

Many thanks to long-time friend-of-the-blog Dr Colin Khoury for this latest contribution. Conservation gap analysis using Geographic Information System (GIS) tools relies on several sources of ...

In the interest of completeness, I feel it incumbent upon me to complement the post on gap analysis for crop diversity conservation that I put up a few days ago with a couple of additional links. The ...

Journey through 1946's South America to find and collect wild potato plants, which might hold the key to defeat the blight ...

You know a crop has arrived when The Economist does a piece on it. Ube (Dioscorea alata), the purple yam long cherished in the Philippines, is indeed suddenly everywhere, and the newspaper for the ...

I decided to dig a little deeper into the climatic adaptation of Himalayan maize. You may remember from my last post on this that Genesys has 96 maize accessions from over 2000 masl in the Himalayas, ...

The latest episode of Eat This Podcast explores why the tomato, first recorded in England in the 1590s, took more than a century to become an important food. The explanation offered was that it took a ...

Among the gems Jeremy has included in his latest Eat This Newsletter are an essay on the potato in Belarus and a visual guide to the peppers of the world. Very tasty.

I decided to dig a little deeper into the climatic adaptation of Himalayan maize. You may remember from my last post on this that Genesys has 96 maize accessions from over 2000 masl in the Himalayas, ...

You know a crop has arrived when The Economist does a piece on it. Ube (Dioscorea alata), the purple yam long cherished in the Philippines, is indeed suddenly everywhere, and the newspaper for the ...