http://theb4fa.org Biosciences For Farming in Africa Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:52:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/plantbreeding/genetic-diversity/#comment-296 Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:52:14 +0000 http://geneticsforagriculture.org/?page_id=3838#comment-296 […] I use DNA sequencesfrom insects collected by researchers from across the globeto summarize the genetic diversityof insect communities, rather than their species diversity. This makes data collection much more […]

]]> http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/plantbreeding/genetic-diversity/#comment-258 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 01:53:09 +0000 http://geneticsforagriculture.org/?page_id=3838#comment-258 […] not always predictable. It’s important to study properly how population dynamics influences genetic diversity, as local extinctions can lead, for example, to loss of heterozygosity or of genetic variability. […]

]]> http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/plantbreeding/where-do-our-crops-come-from-banana/#comment-253 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:26:47 +0000 http://geneticsforagriculture.org/?page_id=3907#comment-253 […] The banana is blessed with a decidedly phallic shape, but that doesn’t translate into a healthy sex life. The vast majority of the bananas that we can buy in our shops are part of the subgroup called Cavendish, and another thing that unites all of these bananas is that they are sterile. A wild banana is actually a massive herb found in jungle areas whose fruit contains large numbers of very hard seeds and is impossible to eat for that reason. The version that we are familiar with is a mutation of this wild banana in which the seeds fail to fully develop—which makes them ideal to eat but also means they can’t reproduce normally.[4] […]

]]> http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/plantbreeding/where-do-our-crops-come-from-banana/#comment-252 Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:31:00 +0000 http://geneticsforagriculture.org/?page_id=3907#comment-252 […] The banana is blessed with a decidedly phallic shape, but that doesn’t translate into a healthy sex life. The vast majority of the bananas that we can buy in our shops are part of the subgroup called Cavendish, and another thing that unites all of these bananas is that they are sterile. A wild banana is actually a massive herb found in jungle areas whose fruit contains large numbers of very hard seeds and is impossible to eat for that reason. The version that we are familiar with is a mutation of this wild banana in which the seeds fail to fully develop—which makes them ideal to eat but also means they can’t reproduce normally.[4] […]

]]> http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/plantbreeding/where-do-our-crops-come-from-banana/#comment-251 Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:09:09 +0000 http://geneticsforagriculture.org/?page_id=3907#comment-251 […] The banana is blessed with a decidedly phallic shape, but that doesn’t translate into a healthy sex life. The vast majority of the bananas that we can buy in our shops are part of the subgroup called Cavendish, and another thing that unites all of these bananas is that they are sterile. A wild banana is actually a massive herb found in jungle areas whose fruit contains large numbers of very hard seeds and is impossible to eat for that reason. The version that we are familiar with is a mutation of this wild banana in which the seeds fail to fully develop—which makes them ideal to eat but also means they can’t reproduce normally.[4] […]

]]> http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/plantbreeding/where-do-our-crops-come-from-banana/#comment-250 Wed, 05 Sep 2018 07:54:59 +0000 http://geneticsforagriculture.org/?page_id=3907#comment-250 […] The banana is blessed with a decidedly phallic shape, but that doesn’t translate into a healthy sex life. The vast majority of the bananas that we can buy in our shops are part of the subgroup called Cavendish, and another thing that unites all of these bananas is that they are sterile. A wild banana is actually a massive herb found in jungle areas whose fruit contains large numbers of very hard seeds and is impossible to eat for that reason. The version that we are familiar with is a mutation of this wild banana in which the seeds fail to fully develop—which makes them ideal to eat but also means they can’t reproduce normally.[4] […]

]]> http://theb4fa.org/scientists-release-biotech-maize-cotton-varieties-kenya-2/#comment-235 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:02:38 +0000 http://theb4fa.org/?p=12908#comment-235 […] extends to biotechnology, where African countries are carving up a niche in agricultural biotech and spreading its benefits to the whole population. Simultaneously, dozens of biotech hubs are […]

]]> http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/plantbreeding/gene-bank/#comment-234 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:39:25 +0000 http://geneticsforagriculture.org/?page_id=3850#comment-234 […] http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/plantbreeding/gene-bank/  […]

]]> http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/new-plant-technologies/what-is-gene-stacking/#comment-233 Sat, 17 Feb 2018 07:48:54 +0000 http://theb4fa.org/?page_id=7291#comment-233 […] were missing”. In other words, studies included GE herbicide tolerance only when combined (stacked) with GE insect resistance traits. Effectively, this is a meta-analysis on corn with GE insect […]

]]> http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/plantbreeding/what-is-plant-breeding/#comment-231 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:18:58 +0000 http://geneticsforagriculture.org/?page_id=3831#comment-231 […] http://theb4fa.org/bioscience-in-brief/plantbreeding/what-is-plant-breeding/ […]

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