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Fresh Nibbles: February 9, 2012
: <- click to comment- Yale University magazine drinks the fast-track breeding KoolAid panacea.
- Compare and contrast. Repeat. Endlessly.
- Grafting tomatoes is hot for lots of reasons; but how does it protect against leaf-borne diseases?
- Getting the lowdown on that “food sovereignty” farrago.
- And today’s DNA sequencing will solve world hunger and cure bunions story.
- Genomics also good for “health, agriculture, livestock, fisheries and biodiversity” in Philippines. Have we forgotten anything?
- Well yeah, you forgot your handy molecular toolkit.
- Meanwhile, back in the real world, the choice is between forests and yaks.
Nibbles Archive: All that condensed goodness.
And easy access to the Brainfood Archive.
Featured Comment: February 7, 2012
David Williams remembers Ed Percival:
Ed’s father was working for the United Fruit Company in Guatemala where he met and married Ed’s mother, a Guatemalan. Ed was born at the United Fruit Company hospital in Quiriguá, an archaeological site on the Rio Motagua, famous for its incomparable array of Mayan stelae, one of which is featured on the country’s 10 centavo coin.
There’s more, check it out.
- February 9, 2012: SLNRao commented on Debating the future of grasspea breeding
- February 8, 2012: Clare Trivedi commented on Nibbles: Mike Jackson blog, Philippines genebank fire, Ancient garden, USA maps, Horse domestication, Gnats, Livestock training, Chocolate, Epigenetics, Indian nutritional security, Kew fund, GM bananas, Reconciling databases
- February 7, 2012: Ola Westengen commented on Cotton doyen passes away
- February 7, 2012: Jacob commented on Nibbles: Musa taxonomy kerfuffle, Vouchers, Foodies, Aroid roundup, MAS is ok, Sierra Leone conservation
- February 7, 2012: David commented on Cotton doyen passes away
- February 6, 2012: Dave Wood commented on Nibbles: Mike Jackson blog, Philippines genebank fire, Ancient garden, USA maps, Horse domestication, Gnats, Livestock training, Chocolate, Epigenetics, Indian nutritional security, Kew fund, GM bananas, Reconciling databases
- February 6, 2012: Dave Wood commented on Consolidation in the seed industry
- February 6, 2012: Dirk Enneking commented on Consolidation in the seed industry
- February 4, 2012: Mark Sieffert commented on How they make cheese
- February 3, 2012: Steve commented on Nibbles: Neolithic foods, Diplomacy, San, Bango, Urban Navy beas, Veg Celebs, Seed swaps
- Online Biodiversity Heritage Library has agrobiodiversity too
- Next-generation sequencing and genebanks: a teaser
- Cotton doyen passes away
- Kermit sings the malnutrition blues
- Consolidation in the seed industry
- Brainfood: Falcons, Wild soybean squared, Horse domestication
- How they make cheese
- Mapping America
- Another photograph of Erna Bennett surfaces
- How to react to emergencies
- Germplasm documentation is a two way street
- How grafting a plum tree led to an obsession
- Using data to inform nutrition security policy
- The quinoa story: it’s complicated
- Forests at your service: lessons from Kibale
- Breadfruit roundup
- Not all Andean tubers are potatoes
- Yemen spatial data online, sort of
- CGIAR research on Cassava Brown Streak Disease
- Food on a pedestal
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how can i get notes on a world without plants?