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Tag Archives: food
Banana, Ensete and Boesenbergia Genomics talk by Schwarzacher, Heslop-Harrison, Harikrishna
Comparative genomic analysis in Zingiberales: what can we learn from banana to enable Ensete and Boesenbergia to reach their potential? Talk for Plant and Animal Genomics #PAGXXV Molecular cytogenetics can address challenges in crops with relatively little background knowledge. This … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Farming, Musa
Tagged Africa, banana, breeding, chromosomes, enset, ensete, Epigenetics, Ethiopia, food, genetics, genomics, immunocytochemistry, musa
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Scientists ready to stem the onslaught of pseudoscience in the EU
BRUSSELS, May 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ A meeting was held between Dr Vytenis Andriukaitis, Commissioner of Health & Food Safety and well established and respected scientists (Prof. Sir Colin Berry, Prof. Alan Boobis, Prof. Wolfgang Dekant, Prof. Daniel Dietrich, Prof. Helmut Greim, … Continue reading
Posted in News, Press
Tagged Andriukatis, assessment, EP, eu, European commission, European Parliament, food, laws, legislation, pseudoscience, regulation, risk, safety, science
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Saffron Crocus, quality and fraud in New York Times
Elaine Sciolino discusses saffron in the New York Times. Saffronomics partners Jean Thiercelin and Pat Heslop-Harrison are quoted, with the outcome of the project in developing methods to detect fraud and measure quality. In the article, the special qualities of saffron are discussed … Continue reading
Posted in Crocus, Farming, Press, Uncategorized
Tagged breeding, colour, crocus, food, genetics, Iran, new york times, newspapers, press, saffron, spain, spice, testing
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Agriculture and Climate Change in Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Breeding, Climate Change Adaptation, Agronomy, and Water Security
313. Noorka IR, Heslop-Harrison JS 2014. Agriculture and Climate Change in Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Breeding, Climate Change Adaptation, Agronomy, and Water Security. In: Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, Ed Leal Filho W. 1-8. Springer Berlin Heidelberg http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40455-9_74-1 Link to NoorkaHeslopHarrisonBreedingClimateChangeAuthorVersion with colour figures. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Farming, Publications, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, agriculture, agronomy, aliens, breeding, Climate Change, crops, food, invasion, irrigation, Middle East, salinity, Southeast Asia, stress, terraces, water, Water Security, wheat
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Needs for understanding water and food security
“The earth’s land surface receives about 110,000 km3 of rainfall annually. More than half of this water is evapotranspired (transmitted from soils and through plants to the air); about 20,000 km3 falls on land that is cultivated in some form; … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Farming, Farming, Literature, News, Research
Tagged banana, brassica, breeding, drought, education, ensete, FAO, food, food security, genetics, genomics, iaea, irrigation, research, water, wheat
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From vegan to meat: human diet and trophic levels
Where are humans in the food chain? Bonhommeau et al. address this question in PNAS, apparently for the first time, in detail across all countries and over the period from 1961 that FAO statistics on food consumption and production are available … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Farming, Literature, Sustainability
Tagged animals, aquaculture, breeding, carnivorous, crops, culture, diet, farming, FISH, food, food security, vegan, vegetarian
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Nouf Alsayied: PhD student with Saffron Crocus at the University of Leicester and faculty member Umm Al-Qura University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
My research focuses on understanding the origin and diversity of the genus Crocus (Iridaceae), with particular emphasis on a triploid sterile plant, Crocus sativus (2n=3x=24) that yields Saffron, one of the most expensive spices on earth. The saffron is the … Continue reading
