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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on June 15, 2007June 15, 2007

Anti-biofuel Senate testimony

Celsias reports at length on Lester Brown’s bio-temperate briefing to a US Senate committee.

Posted on June 15, 2007

Japanese rice planting festival

“What flower blooms in the front field? Rice flowers, money flowers, flowers of perfect virtue.”

Posted on June 15, 2007

New course

Teaching researchers to talk to farmers in East Africa.

Posted on June 15, 2007

Australian fruits

Aussies scour their flora for cool fruits.

Posted on June 14, 2007

Noah’s Fridge

Noah’s Fridge: no, not Svalbard!

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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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