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Nibbles: CIAT strategy & genebank, Baked beans, Bambara groundnut meet, Malnutrition debate, Bee farming, Pineapple genomics, Sustainable intensification debate

CIAT wants your help with its strategic planning. Read page 4 of the document: “…CIAT proposes to create a new genebank…” Breeding a better British baked bean. What, again? Or still. Talkin’ Bambara groundnut blues. Solutions for micronutrients deficiency, in general and in particular. Bees and yields take off in Kenya. Pineapple taste gene identified, …

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Nibbles: Anna Laurent, Sequencing, Gossypium, Capsicum, Native Americans, Journal, Genebank, Hairy fruit, JIC, Tasty tulips

Design guru talks botany. Latest plant getting the treatment is the Hawaiian Cotton Tree. Which, despite its name, really is a (remote) cotton wild relative. What has Next Generation Sequencing ever done for me? And what you should know about how it works. And here’s an example of it at work: different cultivated cotton species …

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