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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on June 5, 2007June 5, 2007

How rhizobia work

Another attempt to persuade non-leguminous plants to enter into a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with rhizobia.

Posted on June 5, 2007June 5, 2007

Orange cauliflower gene

The gene for orange cauliflowers promotes storage, not manufacture, of carotenes. A new approach to enhancing nutrition?

Posted on June 4, 2007June 4, 2007

Guinea pigs

As well as feeding Andean peoples for centuries, guinea pigs have helped win twenty-three Nobel Prizes.

Posted on June 1, 2007

Bioinformatics projects database

Interested in information on biodiversity information projects?

Posted on June 1, 2007June 1, 2007

Sustainable tea

Unilever, which buys 12% of the world’s tea production, wants it all certified sustainable by 2015.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. A primer on the USDA genebank in Pullman.
    2. Possible genebank in Indonesia. I could have sworn there was one already.
    3. Community genebank in Somalia. Surely not the only one.
    4. Garlic moves between genebanks. I’m sure there’s a reason.
    5. New enset products and processing methods are great, but is there a comprehensive genebank? I wish I could be sure.
    6. That goes for other “opportunity crops” and “forgotten foods” too.

    Published on August 31, 2025

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