Plants & People
January Sales open on English forests
Via Tom Goskar comes news that the UK government has announced the next plan to reduce the deficit. It is to sell the English forests. Every
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Banana sustains … for nutrition, for livelihoods and for the environment
How can we grow sustainable bananas?
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Orbis non Sufficit
A lot of light and not much heat came from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Study Week on ‘Transgenic Plants for Food Security in the Context
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Bad Times Just Around The Corner
Plant scientists are being evicted.
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I’m stealing this presentation
The social web isn’t just limited to blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Slideshare is a great place to look for presentations on all sorts of things. I’ve been particularly impressed by this presentation about how to give a PowerPoint presentation. STEAL THIS PRESENTATION! View more presentations from @JE
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The roadside botanist, bananas and cassava biodiversity
Roadside botany in the Brazilian Cerrado.
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Beer IS good for you! [or Antibiotics: good for what ale’s you]
Tetracycline, an antibiotic, was found in ancient Sudanese Nubian skeletons, suggesting beer brewed with infected grain may have been used medicinally.
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Molecular tools and quality improvement in vegetatively propagated crops
A Coordinated Research Project (CRP) sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) aims to improve banana and cassava crops, vital for food security in Asia and Africa.
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Blogger goes bananas (in a good way)
A blog post by Jeremy Cherfas on Vaviblog connects banana domestication research to cassava research and older banana domestication puzzles.
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Are there online communities?
There’s thoughtful post up at Civil War Memory by Kevin Levin, Can You Afford Not To Use Social Media? Some of his thoughts are similar
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Domestication without a genetic bottleneck in Stenocereus (Cactaceae)
Domestication without a genetic bottleneck in Stenocereus (Cactaceae) The Tehuacán Valley in Mexico provides an excellent setting for studying domestication as artificial selection is currently practised
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The gift that goes on giving…
Think of all the energy expended in planting fresh cereal grain every year to ensure just one season’s crop. Then think of all the energy