Why do we eat some plants but not others? What makes a good crop, and how have we transformed these species to suit our own needs? Around 12,000 years ago, humans began to transition from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to a…
Isabel05/05/2015
Meet Amelia and Sarah, the two newest additions to the Global Plant Council team. As a coalition of plant and crop societies from the around the globe, the Global Plant Council (GPC) aims to bring together scientists, policy makers and…
Isabel28/04/2015
Dr Peng Jiang, University of Georgia, USA Peng Jiang and Hui Guo at the University of Georgia think you can! They are currently raising money via a crowdfunding approach to sequence the first cactus genome – but the question is: why…
Isabel23/03/2015
Carolina Roa, Independent Consultant at CropIP “We need a material transfer agreement” © CIAT, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA. As a plant breeder in the area of food and agriculture you look for well-characterized – or at least well-referenced –…
Isabel27/02/2015
Africa will be able to feed itself in the next 15 years. That’s one of the big “bets on the future” that Bill and Melinda Gates have made in their foundation’s latest annual letter. Helped by other breakthroughs in health,…
Isabel27/01/2015