Happy Birthday Brother Gregor

Mendel

Good for Google. h/t Samantha. And if you want to see what you can do when you understand what Mendel did, visit Rebsie.

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Yeah, i agree, Rebsie probably is the closest person we have today to a living “Mendel”. Here’s hoping she continues her Pea breeding adventures.

I also liked the google logo today. I even made a post about it on my own blog. http://keen101.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/following-in-mendels-footsteps/

But if you look carefully, you will notice they were focusing too much on the pod color to notice the mistake with the yellow peas being dominant. Unfortunately Google’s logo doesn’t seem to follow the rule of independent assortment.

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Fresh Nibbles

A paean to diverse diets is just what we all need.
And another one, from the MIT Technology Review of all places.
Menawhile, there’s only one reference to dietary diversity in the World Bank’s investment framework for nutrition.
Maybe you have to quantify that diversity before you can save it? Now where have I heard that before?
Meanwhile, Europe reports on biodiversity-friendly farming practices. Does that include the biodiversity of the actual crops? Perhaps surprisingly, yes!
You want biodiversity-friendly farming practices? Talk to Indigenous people. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has launched an e-consultation on “Preserving, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems.”
There’s diversity in asparagus too.
Genebanks can help with those biodiversity-friendly practices, diverse diets and rops and Indigenous practices.
Even big international genebanks.
Even the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
But some are in trouble.
Though others are coming back.

Published on November 7, 2024