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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on June 6, 2007

Documenting field data

From LEISA, methodologies and experiences in documenting field data.

Posted on June 6, 2007

Maple syrup forever

Never mind about peanuts and potatoes, maple syrup trees are even more threatened by climate change.

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.

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Africa needs good forest seeds.
    2. And genetic monitoring of the resulting plantings, probably.
    3. The Caribbean also wants quality seed, and thinks a mobile seed bank is the way to get it.
    4. The only mobile things about New Zealand’s genebank are its collectors.
    5. A very mobile donation to the UK’s vegetable genebank.
    6. Nothing very mobile about Slow Beans 2025, but that’s the point.
    7. The long journey of honeysuckle.

    Published on January 20, 2026

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