Recipes for GE eggplant
Category: agricultual policy
Most of us love eggplant, but to find a true eggplant connoisseur, go to India.
Posted by Pamela Ronald at 5:14 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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On this web log I explore topics related to genetics, food and farming.
Pamela Ronald is Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of
California, Davis, where she studies the role that genes play in a
plant's response to its environment. Her laboratory has genetically
engineered rice for resistance to diseases and flooding,
both of which are serious problems of rice crops in Asia and Africa. Ronald is co-author with her husband, an organic farmer, of "Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetic and the Future of Food".
Ronald interviews, lectures and profiles
Article, The New Organic in The Boston Globe
Article, Making Rice Disease-Resistant in Scientific American
February 25, 2010
Category: agricultual policy
Most of us love eggplant, but to find a true eggplant connoisseur, go to India.
Posted by Pamela Ronald at 5:14 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 13, 2010
Category: fertility
When I give lectures about the global food supply and the environment, someone in the audience will often comment that the best way to solve the problem is to quit producing so much food. I find this type of "Let 'em starve" approach quite horrific from a humanitarian view. It also makes no sense scientifically.
Posted by Pamela Ronald at 7:32 PM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 12, 2010
Category: agricultual policy
I hear it is snowing in 49 out of 50 states today. And this, just after the big snow in Washington. Is climate change to blame?
Posted by Pamela Ronald at 8:39 PM • 113 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 7, 2010
Category: gender
At the risk of offending half of the human race, I will say this. Men have no manners when it comes to cell phones.
Posted by Pamela Ronald at 6:14 PM • 58 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 6, 2010
Category: Bangladesh
Hunkered down in an elegant hotel in Washington DC, watching the epic storm continue unabated, I cannot help but think of award winning author Kim Stanley Robinson's "Fifty Degress Below" , the second novel in his three-part trilogy.
Posted by Pamela Ronald at 5:17 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 4, 2010
Category: women in science
The L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science awards were the first international scientific awards dedicated to women and have become an international reference of scientific distinction - with two of the 2008 winners, Professor Ada Yonath and Professor Elizabeth Blackburn, going on to win Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Medicine respectively (2009).
Posted by Pamela Ronald at 10:32 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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