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Gentamicin and special-purpose antibiotics
Gentamicin is an unusual antiobiotic with two properties that make it particularly useful in plant cell culture: it is autoclavable so is added to media before
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Taylor Lockwood, mushrooms and the holey veil: DVD video review
We bought a television two years ago. Sadly, despite the 723 channels available, my worst suspicions about quality have been confirmed: there is almost nothing I
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Plant names, alchemy and Alchemilla
Plant names often have an interesting history behind them: I came across Alchemilla while looking up a plant I photographed at the weekend. Thinking about the
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Suburbs and sustainability: Unlocking the greyfields to inhibit urban sprawl from Peter Newton
See on Scoop.it – AnnBot In the face of sustained population growth, our big cities continue to sprawl into the greenfields, despite the now well recognised
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Plantwise knowledge bank of crop pests & diseases
See on Scoop.it – AnnBot release of the Plantwise Knowledge Bank, the open-access information resource from CABI covering crop pests and diseases. Plantwise is a
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Frontiers | A Vision for 21st Century Agricultural Research | From Rich Jorgensen
See on Scoop.it – AnnBot from Richard A. Jorgensen, Guanajuato, México Let’s admit an unfortunate truth: agricultural research in most of the world is based
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Promusa – Mobilizing banana science for sustainable livelihoods | The ‘best genomics Venn diagram ever’ deconstructed : ProMusa blog
See on Scoop.it – AnnBot “It didn’t take long after the journal Nature put online the article on the banana genome sequence for bloggers to
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Stochastic modelling in ecosystems – progress but we are not there yet
Modelling of processes lets one understand the functions of interacting components, helps to identify parts of processes, and can predict outcomes of changes in the system.
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Bullock Ploughing (plowing) in Ethiopia
I added a new skill to my CV last week. Most of the farmland of Ethiopia is ploughed with bullock ploughs (plows). One man and two
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Erosion control, Grevillea and the hills around Aksum, northern Ethiopia – videoblog
Erosion is the most environmentally destructive process. Our videoblog shows planting and watering of Grevillea on hillsides in Ethiopia to control soil loss.
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Ethiopian cereal and chilli mills: making flour in the market from corn, tef, wheat and chilli
See on Scoop.it – AnnBot Flour milling in the west happens out of view! Here we can see three different grains being milled in two larger
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FAO Statistical Yearbook 2012: all you ever wanted to know about world crop yields and tonnages
See on Scoop.it – AnnBot “The 2012 edition of the FAO Statistical Yearbook presents a visual synthesis of the major trends and factors shaping the global