Botanical Issues in the News -
Spring, 2008
Amber
Fossils Reveal Ancient France Was A Jungle (8 Jan 08)
Use
lower
hop trellises for higher profits (10 Jan 08)
Arrow
bamboo wreaks havoc on panda diets when it flowers
(10 Jan 08)
Garlic
combats arsenic poisoning (14 Jan 08)
A
self-destructing palm tree that flowers once every 100 years has been
discovered on Madagascar (16 Jan 08)
96-million-year-old
Fossil Pollen Sheds Light On Early Pollinators (17 Jan 08)
Indian
Medicinal Plant (Acanthus ilicifolius)
May
Combat Liver Cancer (17 Jan 08)
Genome
Sequencer System Used To Sequence, Assemble the Pinot Noir (Vitis vinifera) Genome (21 Jan
08)
New
species of rat-eating plant discovered (22 Jan 08)
Crop plant diversity - more on the Arctic seed vault (23 Jan 08)
Foreign
plant life crowds out local species (26 Jan 08)
More
on the "Kamikaze
tree" (28 Jan 08)
Horticulture,
turf-grass science and the Super Bowl (2 Feb 08)
Phytotherapy
- medical foot problems resolved by Marigolds (Tagetes, Asteraceae) 4 Feb 08)
Potato
roots in Europe and the lowlands of
south-central Chile (4 Feb 08)
DNA
barcode identified for plants (5 Feb 08)
Insect
resistance to GM cotton disputed but not unexpected (11 Feb 08)
Botanical
hairball discovered
on the beach in southeastern Spain (18 Feb 08) - (Posidonia
oceanica - seagrass)
Federal
Agencies Find No Risk
from Seed Contamination with
unregistered genetically engineered
pesticide product (25 Feb 08)
A
botanical mystery in the Wyoming Badlands (25 Feb 08)
Arctic
vault built by Norway ($9,300,000) for seed storage (26 Feb 08)
Genetically engineered corn recalled
(26 Feb 09 - see
story 25 Feb 08)
Cynomorium
coccineum - 'fantastically
phallic' crimson plant of southern Spain. (26 FEb 08)
The
cost of March spring wheat hit $24 a bushel Monday, double its cost two months
ago (27 Feb 08)
Zea mays ssp. mays
genome revealed via the Maize Genome Sequencing Project (28 Feb 08)
Chicory:
The Root of Today’s Coffee Break (3 Mar 08)
How
Weeds Take to Cities (3 Mar 08)
Latest News Summary - Cannabis sativa - Cannabaceae
(running stories - also North
Dakota growers)
Healthful
Plant Pigments (Brassica oleracea
rubra) (11 Mar 08)
Fruit
shape gene cloned (17 Mar 08)
Bad
air that makes pollinators less efficient and plant colonies less robust
(4 Apr 08)
A
Boost For Bamboo-based Blouses And Blankets (7 Apr 08)
Cost
of Rice (Oryza sativa) soars
(8 Apr 08)
Which major crop has been "long derided as a boring tuber prone to
making you fat" (15 Apr 08)
The
world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna
province of Sweden (16 Apr 08)
Preserving
Biodiversity Within Food Crops: Saving Old Distinctive Varieties Of
Carolina Collards (20 Apr 08)
Tracking
Grape (Vitis) genetic
diversity - US germplasm collection (20 Apr 08)
In
Lean Times, Biotech Grains Are Less Taboo (21 Apr 08)
Sunflower
debate ends in Mexico, researchers say (29 Apr 08)
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