Low-tech Devices for Collecting, Processing, and Planting Seeds: Blending Dry Seeds Clean

Planting seeds for the future of food

The health and wellbeing of future generations will depend on humankind's ability to deliver sufficient nutritious food to a world population in excess of 9 billion. Feeding this many people by 2050 will require science-based solutions that address sustainable agricultural productivity and enable healthful dietary patterns in a more globally equitable way. This topic was the focus of a multi-di...

Planting the Seeds of a New Paradigm

Although the word ‘revolution’ should not be used lightly in science, there is no other way to describe the recent explosion in our awareness and understanding of RNAmediated gene silencing pathways. The central player in RNA-mediated gene silencing is a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) that is chopped into tiny RNAs by the enzyme Dicer. The tiny RNAs associate with various silencing effector comple...

Lamport on Mutual Ex lusion: 27 Years of Planting Seeds

Chapter 20: Collecting and handling seeds in the field

Seed banking remains a cornerstone in the conservation of plant genetic resources. To be successful, it relies on the collecting and banking of high-quality seeds. In 1995 there was relatively little guidance available to seed collectors (especially of wild plant species), who had to make decisions in the field about what to collect and how to handle collected material. Since then, research int...

The Anti-Scorbutic Value of Dry and Germinated Seeds.

SCURVY is always a menace to any community of people who are separated from adequate supplies of fresh food, whether in tropical or arctic climates. Such it proved to be to our army in Mesopotamia in ]915 and 1916 (Mesopotamia Commission Report, 1917), especially among the Indian troops. In consequence of this outbreak, a group of investigators in this Institute undertook an investigation of fo...