The gene for orange cauliflowers promotes storage, not manufacture, of carotenes. A new approach to enhancing nutrition?
Guinea pigs
As well as feeding Andean peoples for centuries, guinea pigs have helped win twenty-three Nobel Prizes.
Bioinformatics projects database
Interested in information on biodiversity information projects?
Sustainable tea
Unilever, which buys 12% of the world’s tea production, wants it all certified sustainable by 2015.
Agave paper
There’s a paper out on the diversity of Agave in Mexico, the source of tequila.