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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on January 26, 2009January 26, 2009

Nibbles: Mendel, Darwin, Cloves

  • Mendel was no cheat.
  • Correspondence between Darwin and Belfast merchant about potato late blight.
  • Zanzibar clove farming stinks.
Posted on January 24, 2009January 24, 2009

Nibbles: Khush, Reindeer, Rice, Truffle, Quince

  • Legendary rice breeder sets example for Punjab students.
  • Sami worried about what climate change will mean for their reindeer, try to do something about it.
  • Rice tillering gene deconstructed.
  • Truffle pirated.
  • AÄŸzınız ÅŸirin olsun!
Posted on January 23, 2009January 23, 2009

Nibbles: Peanut butter, Slow Food, Pacific, School, Carnations

  • “The legume that giveth can also taketh away.”
  • Content Coordinator at Slow Food Nation asks: “Am I a coniglio?“
  • Tracing Pacific migrations through stomach bugs.
  • Rethinking school lunch.
  • “There is still a stigma to the flower.” Er, yes, and your point is?
Posted on January 22, 2009January 22, 2009

Nibbles: Banana, Pigs, Bees, Wiki, Cat, Award, Genomics

  • Banana going extinct. Again.
  • Pigs are good weedkillers.
  • Bee bailout in the UK.
  • India has an agricultural Wikipedia. With a blog. Via.
  • Do you know this cat?
  • SEED 2009 Awards for entrepreneurs. Found at the LEISA blog.
  • TED talk on building better wines through genomics.
Posted on January 21, 2009January 21, 2009

Nibbles: Training, Teapot, Onion

  • Food and Nutrition Security training course starts 30 March 2009. Is biodiversity involved?
  • Giant teapot made of coconut shell wins national record.
  • Giant database made of food items claims world record. Via.
  • Heroes of Horticulture exhibit interrupts US Inauguration. Jeremy comments: “Yay!”

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. King Charles III talks about seeds with Dr Elinor Breman of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and…
    2. …Cate Blanchett.
    3. Or read about it in The Economist.
    4. Or watch a nice video.
    5. The seed banks of the National Plant Germplasm System in the USA are for farmers, not just researchers.
    6. How to get stuff out of the NPGS.
    7. Laurajean Lewis: from an NPGS genebank to CIMMYT’s.
    8. I’m sure she and Chris Mujjabi will get to know each other soon.
    9. Diane Ragone: Not all genebanks are seed banks.
    10. Not a lot of breadfruits in Belgium but, surprisingly, lots of bananas.

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