August 14, 2015August 14, 2015 by Luigi Guarino

Nibbles: CIAT job, Rice revolution, Pomegranate genebank, Spiderplant, Floating heritage, Lager origin, Amaro history, Golden Rice et al.

CIAT genebank looking for a leader.
IRRI soon-to-be-former (Thanks, Mike) DG looking for a new Green Revolution.
Looking for pomegranates? Look no further.
Cleome looking for markets. With genomics.
Looking to the floating gardens of Bangladesh for answers.
Looking for the origin of lager yeasts. And finding two of them.
Looking to understand amaro.
A good look at biofortification.

One Reply to “Nibbles: CIAT job, Rice revolution, Pomegranate genebank, Spiderplant, Floating heritage, Lager origin, Amaro history, Golden Rice et al.”

Mike says:

August 14, 2015 at 9:36 am

Luigi – quick correction. Bob Zeigler is still DG at IRRI. He steps down in mid-December when Matthew Morell will take over. That’s according to the press release for the BoT Chair, Prof. E. Roman.

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