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Tag Archives: broccoli
Open Source Seeds
Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
A group of researchers and plant breeders based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on Thursday announced a new initiative intended to break the monopoly control over plant genetic materials promoted by the use…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged America, brassica, breeding, broccoli, carrot, conservation, crop, crop diversity, development, Europe, farmer, food sovereignty, gardener, genetic diversity, kale, patent, plant_dicot, pseudocereal, quinoa, scientist, seed, seedbank, tradition, umbellifer, vegetable, vegetable variety
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Monsanto Admits: 1. We Don’t Need Genetic Engineering, 2. We Don’t Need Monsanto
Originally posted on Volatility:
> Recently Wired magazine ran a Monsanto infomercial touting its alleged change of strategic course on vegetables. Monsanto, through its subsidiaries Seminis and others, is selling a line of high-end conventional vegetables dolled up as some kind of high-tech breakthrough. Contrary…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged allergy, America, Asia, biofortification, biotechnology, brassica, breeding, broccoli, Bt crop, commodity crop, corn, cotton, crop, crop variety, DNA, drought, Europe, evolution, farmer, feed, fruit, fruit variety, genetic modification, germplasm, glucoraphanin, glyphosate, Golden Rice, grain, grocery, herbicide, herbicide resistance, history, human, insecticide, knowledge, label, lettuce, maize, marker assisted selection, melon, Monsanto, nitrogen, nutrition, onion, organic, pepper, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, research, rice, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, salt, seed, selective breeding, Seminis, soya, tomato, trade, transport, vegetable, vegetable variety, watermelon, weed, wild vegetable
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Lepidoptera of the month: Large white and small white butterflies
Here’s my Lepidopteran of the Month series. You might choose to follow my ‘butterfly’ tag for other posts in this series. Today, a day late for July, let’s admire the cabbage whites. Admire them? Well, more likely loathe them. For … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, horticulture
Tagged allotment, arthropod, brassica, broccoli, butterfly, cabbage, cabbage white butterfly, garden, gardener, history, insect, large white butterfly, larva, lepidopteran, pest, plant_dicot, small white butterfly, vegetable
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The extraordinary diversity of Brassica oleracea
Originally posted on The Botanist in the Kitchen:
Before the caterpillars attacked: Red Russian kale seedlings Jeanne turns her frustration with caterpillars in her garden into an exploration of the botany behind an extraordinary species: Brassica oleracea. White cabbage butterflies…
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Tagged arthropod, brassica, breeding, broccoli, brussels sprout, butterfly, cabbage, cabbage white butterfly, cauliflower, crop, domestication, garden, harvest, history, insect, lepidopteran, pest, plant_dicot, vegetable, wild cabbage
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