In the way that you do when you follow a link and then another one and another, I’ve stumbled across Science & Plants for Schools, which “creates opportunities for teachers and students to find out more about plants and to become more interested in plant science” – very worthwhile aims!
These are links from our Scoop It page between January 18th and January 30th: Landscapes for People, Food and Nature: a new Blog from Bioversity, FAO, UNEP et al A new blog on Landscapes for People, Food and Nature is launched today. Fortunately, its just in time for a new University of Leicester undergraduate module [...]
Recent findings show that genetic material in plant foods may survive digestion, circulate through our bodies and modulate our gene expression. These findings could alter our understanding of nutrition, genetic regulation and open up new vistas for engineering foods. New foods for thought. Trends Plant Sci. 19 Jan 2012 Tweet
These are links from our Scoop It page between January 3rd and January 17th: The Archaeobotanist: African Archaeobotany 2011 A blog reviewing Dorian Fuller's archaeobotanical highlights of 2011. Africa, as a continent, remains one of the archaeobotanically least known and so it worth noting a number of contributions over the past year. One of the [...]
These are links from our Scoop It page between December 21st and January 3rd: Is it an early spring? Yes and no Tim Entwisle: In my first winter at Kew it's a bit messy. See it on Scoop.it Iraq flora project revived after 25 years After 25 years on hold, a project to catalogue every [...]
These are links from our Scoop It page between December 13th and December 20th: BibliOdyssey: Liber Floridus These images come from the fabled manuscript, 'Liber Floridus' (Book of Flowers), a Medieval encyclopædia produced some 900 years ago by Lambert, Canon of St Omer, in the NE France/Flanders/Belgium region. From the always impressive BibliOdyssey site [...]
These are links from our Scoop It page between November 29th and December 11th: How would you illustrate the concept of a seedbank? Seedbanks, like most scientific collections, can never be imaged in total. But if you need an illustration of this concept, what would you focus on? The building, its location, a curator, some [...]
These are links from our Scoop It page between November 15th and November 24th: Happy Thanksgiving! Sweet Potato Gets Funding While turkey is the star of the Thanksgiving plate, a humble side dish is getting its moment in the science spotlight. The Global Crop Diversity Trust and the International Potato Center in Peru have set [...]
These are links from our Scoop It page between November 8th and November 14th: Debate: Is Research for Development Relevant to Water and Food Challenges? The International Forum on Water and Food is the premier gathering of water and food scientists working on improving agriculture production in developing countries. … research-for-development is highly relevant precisely because [...]
These are links from our Scoop It page between October 20th and November 7th: The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth? Socotra island has been geographically isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years. Like the Galapagos Islands, Socotra island is teeming with 700 extremely rare species of flora and fauna, a [...]