Nibbles: Drugs, Chains, Data, Year, Svalbard, Twitter, Laurel

by Luigi on March 15, 2010

Opium gene decoded. Is that good?
ILRI shares a bunch of presentations on value chains. Can’t be bad.
Missouri Botanical Garden opens Center for Biodiversity Informatics. Will any good come of it?
Agri scientists promote 2010 as biodiversity year. But that should have read Bioversity International. Bad.
Wild edibles could hold key to protecting food supply? They mean wild relatives, of course. Very bad.
More on our Twitter feed. You following us, right? Good!
Beware the Ides of March! Laurel wreath bad for some.

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World Bank runs competition to develop climate change app. CCAFS surrenders.
ICRISAT launches Center of Excellence on Climate Change Research for Plant Protection. CCAFS surrenders.
Britain’s National Fruit Collection gets grafted.
COGENT looks for validation.
Everybody loves timelapse.
A seed catalogue round-up.
“True grits“. Worthy, of course, but basically I love the title.
Not sure why news of a website for the Biofortification Conference held in November 2010 just popped up, but it did.
Know any good, young, committed, practical, gung-ho, field-tempered, agricultural Norman Borlaug clones? The World Food Prize wants to hear from you.
The Millennium Seed Bank has a blog. Welcome, seed-dudes!

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Featured Comment: February 11, 2012

SLNRao regrets the mistakes of the past, but sees a bright future ahead for grasspea, and its relatives:

Looking at the likely benefits of Homoarginine on the cardiovasculature and emerging concepts on ODAP itself I am of the firm belief that grass pea in coming years will turn into a rich man’s pulse.

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