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New natural anti-oxidant source

The seed extract of the South American SapindaceaeÂ berry guarana (Paullinia cupana) has been found to have high levels of anti-oxidant activity.

Tomato leaf curl virus has appeared in California, threatening the entire US tomato crop.

Farmers Celebrate Biodiversity Day in Ireland …

CABI has a new e-Zine. And in the first issue, how farmers in Sri Lanka are using the internets to grow better crops.

Local Samoan banana variety a hit in NZ (2)
- Kyle: You're completely correct - banana cultivars haven't been kept track of very well at all and there is so much…
Historical plant exploration film comes to light (1)
- Chris Kik: This is is really great Luigi !!
Nibbles: I say potato, CATIE genebank, Wat, Teff war, Digitizing collections, Black History Month, Crop stats (1)
- Dave Wood: New Potato: This still attempts to blame the Convention on Biological Diversity for reducing collecting. It didn't. It was the…