photo: Food Mapping
As with other high yield crops like rice, meant to feed large groups of people on the cheap, domesticated crops are chosen to be grown in mass often leaving the crop’s biodiversity in jeopardy. But thanks to the time honored rice harvesting traditions of Thai rice farmers, many of the less prevalent but still incredibly important rice crop varieties remain intact. ...Read the full story on TreeHuggerPosts Tagged ‘biodiversity’
Rice Biodiversity Techniques Remain Intact in Rural Thailand
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
photo: Food Mapping
As with other high yield crops like rice, meant to feed large groups of people on the cheap, domesticated crops are chosen to be grown in mass often leaving the crop’s biodiversity in jeopardy. But thanks to the time honored rice harvesting traditions of Thai rice farmers, many of the less prevalent but still incredibly important rice crop varieties remain intact. ...Read the full story on TreeHuggerPlant Barcodes to Help Quash Illegal Trade of Endangered Species
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Plant DNA 'barcodes' can help identify plants quickly and easily, without requiring an on-site visual ID from a botanist. Photo by Victoria Porter via Flickr.com.
After four years of research, scientists have decided on a standard 'DNA barcode' for identifying plants. It sounds cool, if you like science (which I do), but is it perhaps one of those findings that's great if you're a researcher, but pretty much useless to the rest of the world? Well, no.
According to a BBC article, DNA barcodes can be used to investigate illegal trade of Read the full story on TreeHugger