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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. 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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