TIL that the former director of the Tate Britain started a citrus collection orchard in Palmera Spain that now grows more than 500 varieties from around the world and you can tour it by appointment. Why would you want to? For the sheer joy of knowing someone is committed to preserving the world's citrus heritage.
#foodie #citrus #citrusfarming #citrustrees #TodoliFoundation #PlantBreeding
Todoli Citrus Fundació
https://todolicitrusfundacio.org/en/
Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Vegetable Genetics & Production Technologies
"1-time initiative designed to support institutions in attracting world-leading researchers whose work addresses critical national and global challenges. The program emphasizes both research excellence & tangible impact. Impact+ Chairs will receive long-term funding and institutional support to advance ambitious and transformative projects"
https://careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-Canada-Impact%2B-Research-Chair-in-Vegetable-Genetics-and-Production-Technologies-ON-N1G-2W1/1290607647/ #PlantBreeding #PlantScience #Canada #GetFediHired
"A Single Genomic Region Controls Primocane Fruiting in Tetraploid Blackberry"
To explain to folks who eat berries, but don't grow them, cane berries mostly flower (and therefore have flowers that turn into fruit) on 2nd year canes (floricanes). If breeders can extend the trait some cane berries have of being able to flower on first-year canes (or primocanes), growers get fruit the first year they plant the plants.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694498v1.abstract #PlantBreeding #FruitToot #PlantScience
By the time I'd tried to peel them and rummage through the flesh to get the seeds out, there wasn't enough flesh left to be worth processing...too much work for too little pay off. Although pleasant enough to eat, where you can let your teeth and tongue do the work and no flesh is wasted sticking to the sides of the pot or any utensils used
It would be interesting to see what you could do with medlar if breeding were resumed in a major way. It's a lovely plant! #FruitToot #Botany #PlantBreeding
Scientists used CRISPR to boost the efficiency and digestibility of a fungus already known for its meatlike qualities. The modified strain grows protein far more quickly and with much less sugar while producing substantially fewer emissions. It also outperforms chicken farming in land use and water impact.
Janet Fraser
Alexander J. Stein
Megan Lynch (she/her)