- A makeover for the potato.
- Mali’s farmers want improved landraces, not fancy-shmancy hybrids.
- Biofortified does Pollan. And Pollan does Oprah…
- The long-term consequences of introducing new genes to populations are not all that bad. Relevance for crop wild relatives? More research needed…
- The Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center (KBCC) in Taiwan described.
- Almond tree produces poison in nectar to attract insects? Go figure. In other pollinator news, they’re declining in Central Europe.
- What would a world without domesticated livestock look like? ILRI DG questions vegetarians.
Nibbles: Spud, Mali’s farmers, Pollan, Geneflow, Taiwan botanic garden, Pollinators squared, Vegetarianism
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@almond tree poison
bees do strange things, some even collect DDT
Letters to Nature
Nature 297, 62 – 63 (06 May 1982); doi:10.1038/297062a0
Male Eufriesia purpurata, a DDT-collecting euglossine bee in Brazil
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v297/n5861/abs/297062a0.html