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Ugly Perennials Getting Admiring Looks

By Laura Rance-Unger July 28, 2011

In a back corner of the Ian N. Morrison Research Farm is a nursery of what most farmers would consider butt-ugly plants with spindly stems, tiny seeds, and weedy characteristics. But they might just be the salvation of grain farming if the impact of climate change falls hard on the Canadian Prairies. The plots contain

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Gene Codes Cracked For Strawberries And Chocolate

By Kate Kelland January 27, 2011

Teams of scientists have cracked the genetic codes of the wild strawberry and a certain type of cacao used to make fine chocolate, work that should help breeders develop better varieties of more mainstream crops. The wild strawberry is closely related to important food crops such as apples, peaches, pears and raspberries, as well as

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The Ultimate Hit List — The Top 100 Food Crops

By Lorraine Stevenson January 20, 2011

Picking the world’s most important food crops is no small feat, given tastes differ around the world and there are many ways to measure value. But Ernest Small had one fundamental criteria in mind when he wroteTop 100 Food Plants: The World’s Most Important Culinary Crops. “Obviously, we can rank them on a dollar-value basis,

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Crop Diversity Key To Food Security

By Allan Dawson December 10, 2009

“There are as many patents for roses and chrysanthemums as there are for the three most important food crops – rice, wheat and maize. What are we to do, feed them chrysanthemums?” – Pat Mooney Pat Mooney, who isn’t known for his optimism, says he finally has some good news. The executive director of the

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Patents Won’t Feed People

By Allan Dawson December 10, 2009

In the 1970s, the seed trade said it could feed the 500 million hungry people in the world if governments would allow Plant Breeders’ Rights patent protection. Despite those concessions there are a billion hungry in the world now. “Fifty-nine per cent of all of the patents that have been granted have been granted for

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Ugly Perennials Getting Admiring Looks

Gene Codes Cracked For Strawberries And Chocolate

The Ultimate Hit List — The Top 100 Food Crops

Crop Diversity Key To Food Security

Patents Won’t Feed People

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