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Genetically modified organisms and seed segregation : report, together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendices : eighth report / Agriculture Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Agriculture Committee.Date: 2000- Digital Images
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Lathyrus vernus (L.)Bernh. Papilionaceae previously Orobus vernus L. (Linnaeus, 1753) Spring vetchling. Distribution: Europe to Siberia. The seeds of several Lathyrus species are toxic, and when eaten cause a condition called lathyrism. The chemical diaminoproprionic acid in the seeds causes paralysis, spinal cord damage, aortic aneurysm, due to poisoning of mitochondria causing cell death. Occurs where food crops are contaminated by Lathyrus plants or where it is eaten as a 'famine food' when no other food is available. It is the Orobus sylvaticus purpureus vernus of Bauhin (1671) and Orobus sylvaticus angustifolius of Parkinson (1640) - who records that country folk had no uses for it. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Lathyrus vernus (L.)Bernh. Papilionaceae previously Orobus vernus L. (Linnaeus, 1753) Spring vetchling. Distribution: Europe to Siberia. The seeds of several Lathyrus species are toxic, and when eaten cause a condition called lathyrism. The chemical diaminoproprionic acid in the seeds causes paralysis, spinal cord damage, aortic aneurysm, due to poisoning of mitochondria causing cell death. Occurs where food crops are contaminated by Lathyrus plants or where it is eaten as a 'famine food' when no other food is available. It is the Orobus sylvaticus purpureus vernus of Bauhin (1671) and Orobus sylvaticus angustifolius of Parkinson (1640) - who records that country folk had no uses for it. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Ephemera
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Waterloo caesarean evergreen cabbage of English growth... / agent for the west end circulation, J. Moss.
Moss, J.Date: [1836?]- Archives and manuscripts
Insects & Crops
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/10/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Rye (Secale sp.): entire flowering plant with separate flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17616i- Pictures
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Japanese clover (Lespedeza sp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18144i- Pictures
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Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.): flowering stem with separate pod and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17652i- Pictures
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Baldmoney (Meum athamanticum Jacq.): flowering stem with separate rootstock, flower and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
Date: [1778]Reference: 17398i- Books
Plant genetic resources and food security : stakeholder perspectives on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture / edited by Christine Frison, Francisco López and José T. Esquinas-Alcazar.
Date: 2011- Videos
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Building a new India. Life for the land.
Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]- Pictures
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Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.): fruiting stem with separate flower and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17655i- Videos
Building a new India. Life for the land.
Date: 196?- Film
Building a new India. Life for the land.
Date: 196?- Pictures
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Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18103i- Books
Seeds of science : why we got it so wrong on GMOs / Mark Lynas.
Lynas, Mark, 1973-Date: 2018- Books
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Maize and grace : Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000 / James C. McCann.
McCann, James, 1950-Date: 2005- Books
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The complete grazier: or, Gentleman and farmer's directory. Containing the best instructions for buying, breeding and feeding cattle, sheep and hogs, and for suckling lambs. A description of the particular symptoms, commonly attending the various distempers to which cattle, sheep, and hogs are subject; with the most approved remedies. Directions for making the best butter, several sorts of cheese, and renner. Different methods of stocking a grass farm, with the particular expence and profit of each. How to prepare the land, and sow several sorts of grass seeds to advantage. Directions for raising proper fodder for cattle and sheep. Particular instructions for ordering, breeding and feeding poultry, turkeys, pigeons, tame rabbets geese, ducks, bustards, pea-sowls, pheasants and partridges. Also directions for making fish ponds or canals, and for storing them, and ordering the fish in the best manner. With several other useful and curious particulars. Written by a country gentleman, and originally designed for private use.
Country Gentleman.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Videos
Seeds of doubt.
Date: 1997- Archives and manuscripts
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Letter from A J Bateman to J B S Haldane
Date: 21 Sep [1948]Reference: HALDANE/5/1/2/8/22Part of: Haldane Papers- Videos
Bitter harvest. Pt. 2, Seeds of Anger.
Date: 2002- Pictures
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Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.
Williams, Joseph Lionel, approximately 1815-1877.Date: 1850Reference: 25275i- Books
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A treatise on indigo, containing a succinct account of the proper soil, the culture and preparation of that important article of commerce; together with the theory and practice of the preparation. The different species and qualities of indigo, and of the accidents to which it is liable from the Sowing of the Seeds Until the Crop, and During the Process of the Manufacture, &c. &c. &c. Translated from the French by Richard Nowland.
Beauvais-Raseau, de.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The description and use of the new invented patent universal sowing machine, for broad-casting or drilling every king of grain, pulse, and seed, Particularly beans, pease, tares, wheat, barley, clover, oats, rye, cole-seed, hemp, flax, canary, rape, lucerne, tresoil, turnips, &c. with anregularity not to be equalled by any other method; by which the produce of every crop will be greatly increased; and, at the same time a very considerable saving made in the seed, and in the expence attending the culture. By John Horn.
Horn, John, active 1784-1785.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Pictures
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Yuquilla (Manihot carthaginensis (Jacq.) Mill.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit and floral segments. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18115i