Can you help provide a precis of this broadcast, “Results of evaluation conducted by the expert commission regarding the state of lands belonging to the Pavlovsk Experiment Station.”
And thanks to commenter Mike H for the link to the VIR site.
Scientist of bees gets genius grant
Latest MacArthur Fellows include: 1
Marla Spivak … an entomologist who is developing practical applications to protect honey bee populations from decimation by disease while making fundamental contributions to our understanding of bee biology.
A pedant speaks: Let’s hope she can also tackle some of the diseases that do more than decimate.
What are species worth?
…wild species continue to be the mother lode of genetic material for making agricultural crops more productive, or more resistant to pests, disease, and drought.
Well, it’s not much, and the few, admittedly unsatisfactory, figures we have on their monetary value are not quoted, but it is good to see crop wild relatives mentioned so explicitly in a discussion of the value of biodiversity.
Pavlovsk: you are here
Chaffey’s regular words of wisdom on anything botanical. Well, mostly wise. But more on that later…
That’s from a nibble a few days ago. The qualification concerned Pavlovsk, and Jeremy has now set the record straight. Incidentally, the latest update on the situation from the Vavilov Institute itself has the first decent map of Pavlovsk I’ve seen. Here it is. Explore for yourself: no Street View, alas.
Fine words feed
“Malnutrition,” “hidden hunger,” and “stunting” are just a few of the buzzwords currently being heard throughout the development community.
Buzzwords? Let’s hear it for the buzzword that will render them obsolete: “biofortification.”
Coincidentally, or not, The Lubin Files points to a useful page of FAO statistics on nutrition.