I just read yesterday that Monsanto has just started blogging, using WordPress too! (Shake of the ol' tassel bag to Jeff at sustainablog) Well, not just now, but about two months ago, the new Monsanto blog put up its first…
Karl Haro von Mogel
Karl Haro von Mogel serves as BFI’s Director of Science and Media and as Co-Executive Editor of the Biofortified Blog. He has a PhD in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics from UW-Madison with a minor in Life Sciences Communication. He is a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Riverside and works on Citrus genetics.
Transposons, Browsers, and Annotation, oh my!
Friday was the first full day of the 51st Maize Genetics Conference, and it was filled with all kinds of genetic fun. When I saw the program, I knew I would be up for the first talks of the morning…
Mendel’s Garden: Frankenpeople!
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.…
How to Breed Cucurbits
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…
Mendel’s Garden reminder
Just a reminder to readers, the next edition of the genetics blog carnival, Mendel's Garden, will be hosted here on Sunday the 8th of March. I would post it sooner if I wasn't so busy night and day at the…
In demand, getting famous!
I've got a couple things to report. The first is that Pamela Ronald, who has just uploaded her first post at Biofortified, has been in the news lately. It isn't often that plant breeding makes the news, and when she…
Mendel’s Garden 28
The 28th edition of Mendel's Garden is up at Quintessence of Dust. An excellent collection of the latest in genetics blogging, this issue includes a post by Biofortified's own Anastasia. The next edition of Mendel's Garden will in fact be…
Obama will (probably) not label GE foods
Last week, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. It was a monumental inauguration for many reasons. Never in the history of this country has a non-white man held this high office.Never before has…
I write letters: The Present Craziness
While I was browsing the genetic engineering news for something to write about, a letter in the San Diego Reader caught my attention. "The Present Craziness" by Pat Palmer read had a very bizarre take on biology, have a read:…
Hawai’i’s curious relationship with GE
Hawai'i is a remote archipelago of islands with a declining sugar industry. The new expanses of open acreage are now being filled with GE crop trials, and controversy. The University of Hawai'i produced the first GE Papaya resistant to Papaya…