- Prof. Brian Cox presents “Feeding the Future,” and it’s not entirely about GMOs. Worth sitting through the whole thing.
- Did we say that Cary Fowler recently received the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources? This is what he had to say on a different recent occasion.
- Want to adopt a coffee seed? Kew will let you give a really cool Christmas gift.
- Or you could buy some Ethiopian coffee.
- Speaking of Christmas gifts…
- CIAT’s bean diversity collection gets its 15 minutes of fame. And ICARDA’s chickpea collection is not far behind.
- More on “open source seeds.”
- Mobilizing the green gold of plant genetic resources: maybe if they were open source…
- Not just green, though, right? Veggies come in all sorts of colours.
- Brexit may do for Wensleydale. I knew there must be a silver lining.
“different recent occasion”: Interesting photo of the Svalbard seed store. It shows the heat exchangers (to the East of the entrance). They are normally hidden behind a snow wall.
Those are the supplementary cooling units that were brought in at the beginning to drop the temperature in the Vault rapidly to the desired level (-18C) from the higher permafrost temperature in the vault room. They are not “normally hidden” behind anything. They were removed years ago when the desired temperature was reached. You’re looking at an old photo, David.