June 13, 2012June 13, 2012 by Luigi Guarino

Nibbles: Transitions edition

Maize geneticist and forage breeder among USDA’s Agricultural Research Service Scientist of the Year winners.
BBC man lands top Kew job.
Elinor Ostrom RIP.
If the wormwood don’t get you, the groundsel will. A tale of two wild Asteraceae.
Foxtail Millet Offers Clues for Assembling the Switchgrass Genome. So that’s what millet is good for.

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1. Big IUCN report says that biodiversity and agriculture are in conflict, they don’t really need to be, but it’s really complicated for them not to be. So that’s us all told.
2. If only annual crops were perennial, for example, eh?
3. If only we incorporated more sustainable agriculture in education, for example, eh? Apart from anything else we could still have beer. No word on the role of perennial barley though.
4. If only improved seeds were open source, for example, eh?
5. If only we could cryopreserve coral, for example, eh? Wait, what?
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