CIAT recently announced that the first vehicle entirely powered by biofuel made from cassava roots is out and about in Colombia. That’s just as well, because that may be all that the crop will be good for in the future.
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Fresh Nibbles: February 3, 2012
: <- click to comment- What wild foods did Neolithic farmers eat? Archaeobotanists want to know. So do we.
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- Maybe they could learn how to use Nature to profit from the San in Namibia?
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- Seedy Sunday, approaching fast in the UK, cries out for some silliness.
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Featured Comment: January 30, 2012
This is just a teaser, the start of a long and interesting comment on grasspea from Fernand Lambein, a Belgian scientist.
I respect the authors for trying to put new live into Lathyrus sativus research and for questioning why two generations of efforts did not result in what has been achieved in other crops.
Don’t just take our word for it. Read the whole thing, and be amazed at how useful grasspea can really be.
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Except of course, if you factor in the work at Biocassava Plus on reducing the levels (and enhancing the degradation) of cyanogenic glycosides in the tuberous roots. Good to know about the influence of climate change on this important staple, though!
Of course.