- Biofortified pearl millet has an effect!
- Bayer says the potato is a diva. But then they would, wouldn’t they.
- Potato exhibit wins award. Did someone say diva?
- Do we really need to be told that fermentation is a good thing?
- See what I mean? I’ll drink to that!
- Nerica for Ebola-hit areas. But why only?
- Cooking up some veggies in Cameroon. With some Nerica rice, no doubt.
- French national collection of carnivorous plants up for sale. Sorely tempted.
- Frida’s garden. I bet there’s some carnivorous plants in there.
- Diverse grasslands are stable grasslands.
- No, actually, The Guardian, not an overpriced deep freeze.
- The sweetest melon in the South.
- Taking the sugar out of our diets. But not watermelons, surely.
- Interview with the US Ambassador to the Rome-based UN agencies, focusing on food security.
- Home-brewed heroin: what could possibly go wrong?
- The Global Seed Conservation Challenge: but will it be done the right way?
- Rummaging around Europe’s forests.
- Is that Shakespeare or Drake holding an early introduction of maize to England?
- Using plants to protect plants.
- Vraic Day! h/t @twaihaku
Diverse grasslands are stable: This is part of an ongoing transatlantic unresolvable battle between Tilmanites and Grimeists. The University of Minnesota paper supports Tilman. I support Grime.
A past comment from Grime notes the problem.
“… Ecology with its numerous subdisciplines, can sometimes resemble an amorphous, postmodern hotel or rabbit warren with separate entrances, corridors and rooms that safely accommodate the irreconcilable. The persistence of the differing perspectives of Grime (1974) and Tilman (1982) provides an obvious example of this phenomenon.”
Grime, J Philip. 2007. “Plant Strategy Theories : A Comment on Craine ( 2005 ).” Journal of Ecology 95 (2): 227–230.