Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Is it possible to distil the ongoing debate over how to conserve plant genetic resources into the contrasting views of two people? For Julia Nordblad of the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, the answer is a resounding yes, if the two people are Otto Frankel and Erna Bennett, both very much …
It turns out we do know what Cary Fowler had to say when he received the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources. It’s not on the relevant website, but it is here below, courtesy of Cary himself. Last spring, I received an email from a graduate student at UC-Davis I had never met …
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What would Erna Bennett do? Go to it, for sure. You do too, if you can. And blog it for us, naturally.
Our friend Danny is continuing his indefatigable search for information about Erna Bennett over at his new blog. He asked for information about “Suiskaya” and lo, another friend replied that this was probably E.N. Sinskaya, (1889-1965). Danny needs more info, if you have anything about her.
Yesterday was Ada Lovelace day, when bloggers around the world celebrated women in technology. We weren’t aware of it, and frankly, I’m not sure who we might have chosen. Erna Bennett? Fortunately, though, we can direct you instead to Oliver Morton’s fine post on Constance Hartt. Who she? Hartt was a laboratory researcher at the …