Plants, crops, weeds…

Cool stuff there at This Week in Evolution, all about domestication and reversion of traits in cultivated plants. Though the title made me think of another aspect of plants’ life, not quite that plants mating wild story-line, but the story of yet another natural (cultural) reversion… Maybe that’ll make some post next August…

Food is next millenium’s challenge

If you have a subscription to Nature, this week’s issue is dealing with agriculture’s challenge of producing enough food as the world population reaches its plateau (apparently, this is to be expected around 2050). I’m just digging in, and it’s very interesting…

Tanguy Island Bioblitz (part 1)

So this is my take on BBB 2010. I happened to be on the “Côte de Granite Rose“, a famous place (and certainly touristic during summertime) in French Brittany (note there are more pictures in the French version of the wiki page). One of the three places in the world where granite rocks are pink [...]

Bioblitzes

I’ve been reorganizing a bit my Flickr sets, and now pictures for Blogger Bio Blitzes are grouped in sets. So I provide here backlinks to previous blitzes, both pictures and posts. Spent: The first experience… Here (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvany). Link at Seeds Aside here. The second run… Here & here (near Paris and near Rennes, France). [...]

Name that strain (train ‘that’ names)

So… … Here is a potato emerging from the Lasagnas, early in May. It has a very sweet purple robe. The stem keeps this redish brown colour when the plant grows. The leaves actually turn green, though paler than classical potato varieties. Could you guess which variety this plant belongs to?

BRG #29

Twenty plant things you must read today (if you haven’t already). Just here. Oh and BTW, edition #28 is here and quite worth too!

Lazzy’s Beds

I can’t say how it came up, but it did. One May day, I made Lasagnas, but not the kind you eat. Lasagna beds. For those who don’t know what this is about, Lasagna beds gardens have been defined as: raised bed that, just as its name suggests, is built up in layers like a [...]

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