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Category: Nibbles

Little bits of link goodness not worth a whole post

Posted on June 7, 2007June 7, 2007

Sheep weed vineyards

A novel use for highly trained sheep: weeding vineyards.

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?

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Fresh Nibbles

    1. Agrobiodiversity inspires tourism in the Andes of Peru.
    2. South African fruit exporters does its (small) bit for heirloom apple conservation.
    3. Wild tea doing just fine in the Shunhuangshan National Nature Reserve in Hunan Province, China. Even when harvested by local communities. Looks great for tourism too.
    4. Native communities in Nebraska getting some support for saving and exchanging seeds.
    5. Women are in charge of chiles in Tamil Nadu.
    6. Popular Science does genebanks. At least one genebank has tourism potential, I’d say.
    7. Want to support forest landscape restoration through native tree planting in Kenya? Go to MyFarmTrees, and help keep Kenya a tourism hotspot.

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