Luigi over at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog brought up a really great point in a recent post, the Bourne Ultimatum, about the National Geographic article The Global Food Crisis: The End of Plenty, a point that just begs to be repeated.Man Walking in Field With Puzzle Piece, 2007 by Josh Cornett
As is typical of Nat Geo, [...]
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Mouseopause
How do you improve crop yields without actually improving crop yields? Control rodents that are eating grain in the fields.
This is exactly what Dr. Loretta Mayer and her graduate student Heidi Miers intend to do with a chemical called VCD (4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide), commonly used in tires, polyesters and plastics. VCD basically degrades ovaries, similar to [...] -
Tuesday at BIO
Although half of my day was spent traveling to the BIO convention There was still plenty for me to see starting at lunchtime. During Tuesday’s lunch, they gave awards to high school students for biotech-related research, and the Governor of Georgia, Sonny Perdue gave a speech positioning Georgia as a future center for biotech research.
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Blogging the BIO Convention
Hello everybody. This morning I caught a red eye flight to Atlanta, Georgia. Although this trip has been almost three months in the making, I’ve been so busy getting ready that I have not had the time to give everyone the heads-up with a blog post. (Busy making time in my research, that is. Packing [...]
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Chlorofilms!
Earlier this year, I heard about a plant science video contest called Chlorofilms. Supported by a grant from the American Society of Plant Biologists, (ASPB) they wanted to encourage people to produce informative and entertaining plant science videos and organize the best of them on one website. Their deadline was in early March, and I [...]
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