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Shawn Kaeppler is a researcher at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Center, a DOE Bioenergy Research Center, and the University of Wisconsin Department of Agronomy. Specific to this center is a lot of work on sustainability, including work on energy balance. You may be surprised, then, to hear that Shawn’s group is working on corn stover,…
The Open Laboratory 2008, an anthology of the best scienceblogs of 2008, is now for sale. This year’s editor Jennifer Rohn put together a collection of fifty-two selected blog posts showcasing the quality and diversity of science writing on blogs in 2008. You can see the background story on how the book came about, here.
Welcome to the 29th edition of Mendel’s Garden, the monthly one-stop-shop for the best the blogosphere has on Genetics. I have hosted the Garden a couple times before on my personal blog, but this month we find ourselves on Biofortified. This is a group blog on plant genetics and genetic engineering, to try to sprinkle…
Today was the first day of the North Central Regional Corn Breeding Research meeting. This is abbreviated NCCC-167. I don’t know where the R went or where the third C came from and don’t know what 167 stands for, so finding out will be my mission for tomorrow. I hope to post details of the…
Researchers at Michigan Tech have a beautiful new way to detect E. coli that may lend itself to detection of other bacteria and even cancer cells. They bound the sugar mannose to a fluorescing polymer. To put it simply, when the E. coli grabs the mannose, the bacteria becomes coated with fluorescence and can then…
Are you a backyard breeder? Do you want to be? Well with this video, now you can! Well, I think if you are a plant breeding student, a breeder looking to train a new workforce, or someone who’s really just curious about how you can possibly make seeds to grow ‘seedless’ watermelons, you’ll like this…
By Melinda Yerka This is a painting done by Sir Charles Bell in 1809 of a soldier dying of tetanus. Doesn’t look too comfortable, hmm? Tetanus is a condition brought on when certain bacteria, called Clostridium tetani, enter deep puncture wounds, such as the proverbial rusty nail, or in this soldier’s case, a dirty sword…
Science based information is critical to Sustainable Agriculture. Agricultural scientists (26) from corn producing states have sent a letter to the EPA criticizing GE seed companies for limiting access to seeds for scientific research. (Pollack, Andrew, NYT, 2/20/09) All of the scientists have been active participants of the Regional Research Projects NCCC-46 “Development, Optimization, and…
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