Stories
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Seeds for the future
Indigenous groups have a key role as guardians of biodiversity, and their knowledge could help us all preserve our world. To survive, we all need to collaborate, reject prejudice, and share what we know.
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Intertwined with air
Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.
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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’
All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.
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Seed and soil inoculation for leguminous crops / by W.B. Bottomley.
Bottomley, William Beecroft, 1863-1922.Date: 1907- Archives and manuscripts
Insects & Crops
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/10/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Biotechnology : enhancing research on tropical crops in Africa / edited by G. Thottappilly [and others].
Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
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The farmer's new guide for raising excellent crops of pease, beans, turnips, or rape, (sown in narrow or wide rows, with a seed-plough, in the power of every wright to make at an easy expence) and cleaning the ground, while they are growing, to prepare it for raising good Crops of wheat, barley, or oats, In the common Way of sowing the Seeds, clear of those Weeds which so often ruin the Farmer, or keep him poor. Being Experiments made on the various Soils of stiff and light. By Mr. Ladnar, a few years since a very considerable farmer, but now of Kroy, in Yorkshire.
Randall, Joseph.Date: [1764?]- Books
Sensi Seed Bank / Sensi Seeds.
Sensi SeedDate: [199-?]