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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on June 21, 2007

Marine genetic resources

Aside from the really lame joke — and she really should know better — Kathryn Garforth Mitchell has a good post on a marine genetic resources meeting.

Posted on June 21, 2007

Herbal Viagra?

All you ever wanted to know about maca (Lepidium meyenii)?

Posted on June 21, 2007June 21, 2007

Another microlivestock resource

More on microlivestock, from what looks a fascinating site.

Posted on June 21, 2007

Chicken maps

Global chicken density maps, courtesy of ILRI, my hosts for this week.

Posted on June 21, 2007June 21, 2007

What colour is your pollen?

What colour is your pollen? Mustard Plaster tells all.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agriculture is bad for natural ecosystems. But great for maps, you have to admit.
    2. Greens are good for you. And this is a great roundup of the latest scholarship on brassica evolution, domestication and diversity. You’ll find most of the paper quoted in past Brainfoods.
    3. Grains are great. Especially with greens.
    4. Thank goodness for household seed banking. Especially in conjunction with the formal kind.
    5. All so we can breed a better peanut. And cut down more natural ecosystem?
    6. No, there’s community genebanks for that too…

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