Brainfood: Coloured wheat, Very wild wheat, Yam bean, Turkish pigeons, Impact of margarine, Refugia, GM and choice, Indian sorghum, Cameroonian oil palm

3 Replies to “Brainfood: Coloured wheat, Very wild wheat, Yam bean, Turkish pigeons, Impact of margarine, Refugia, GM and choice, Indian sorghum, Cameroonian oil palm”

  1. Just wondering about the “3 (sic) cultivated species” comment on the Pachyrhizus paper. As far as the latest phylogeny of the genus goes, P. erosus, P. tuberosus and P. ahipa are all distinct species AND all cultivated ones. Now of course the status of some of these as distinct species is still open to discussion, even in the view of the expert on the genus, Marten Sorensen.

  2. With reference to your remark about blue and purple wheats, may I refer you to the discovery I made in Ethiopia, reported in December 1926, of wheats “with violet grains, not known anywhere else in the world.”.

    An Austrian company — Backaldrin — specialises in using purple wheat.

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