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Brainfood: Seed quantity, Seed quality, Seed testing, Seed sampling, Cryo review, Potato diversity, Coconut cryo, Apple genebanks, Pear vulnerability, Pear restoration, Celebrity conservation, Indigenous rematriation, Farmers’ Rights

Agricultural Biodiversity

Potato soup: analysis of cultivated potato gene bank populations reveals high diversity and little structure. Farmers’ Rights in the Plant Treaty: interrelations and recent interactions with other international regimes and processes. No problem. Still a lot of research needed though.

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Letter Regarding Plant-Incorporated Protectants Rule

NASDA

Developers of PIPs created through gene editing from a sexually compatible plant are required to undertake a mandatory premarket process to confirm “eligibility” for the exemption and are subject to a recordkeeping requirement not imposed on conventionally bred PIPs. We ask that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that U.S.

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MyLand Adds Algae Operations & Innovation Director

Agwired

With nearly three decades of excellence in biotechnology and algae innovation, LaMont will oversee algae and lab operations, leading a diverse team of scientists and engineering staff on the Operations team.

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Precision Ag News 6/12

Agwired

The two awards recognize biotechnology leaders who are driving cutting-edge breakthroughs in agricultural, environmental, and industrial biotechnology. potato can also reduce the environmental impact of the growing process without as many fertilizers and pesticides needed to maintain the potato during storage.

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Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

Civil Eats

Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed. In this map, green areas are projected to be favorable to coffee cultivation by 2050, while brown areas will not be. ( Robusta prepared like arabica would not be considered a fine coffee.

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Over time, the consolidation and commodification of seeds has eroded the resilience of our food systems, diminishing the agrobiodiversity of crops cultivated in the US at an alarming rate. Over the past decades we have seen a hyper consolidation of seed systems that has led to a dominant culture of seed commodification. Source: Philip H.

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Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

Civil Eats

The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago. The process took about three years, and cost $125,000 in permitting fees alone, paid to the California Coastal Commission.

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