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Understanding Cassava to Feed Africa
In the tropics, cassava ranks third as a source of calories just behind rice and maize, and is typically grown by resource-poor smallholder farmers on marginal lands. A naturally drought-tolerant...
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What bacteria are in your banana?
The plant microbiome includes pathogenic, symbiotic, epiphytic and endophytic bacteria. Endophytes colonize plants internally, often in the intercellular region, without causing any adverse effects....
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Quinoa — Agricultural Policy and Bolivian Public Health
AoBBlog welcomes a new guest author, Charlie Haynes, who is currently a final year student in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Leicester. The search for healthy, gluten free and...
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Can intensification be sustainable?
Contemporary interest in agricultural sustainability can be traced to environmental concerns that began to appear in the 1950s and 1960s. However, concepts and practices about sustainability date back...
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Using Plant and Crop Extracts to Enhance Rural Household Food Security
Various plants, crops and extracts have been used over several generations to contribute to household food and nutrition security in semi-arid areas (Khan, et al. 2013; , Smith, et al. 2007; Schipper,...
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2015 International Year of…
Image: Wikimedia Commons. Ever since 1959/60 with ‘World Refugee Year’ we’ve seen all manner of ‘International Years of’ (IYO). These global ‘observances’ are endorsed by the United Nations, an...
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Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems (Invited Review)
Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems (Invited Review) Sustainable agroecosystems tend to have a positive impact on natural, social and human capital, while unsustainable ones deplete...
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Don’t ignore the ‘orphans’!
Image: Wikimedia Commons. With increasing concerns over future food security and the importance of, and need for, health-promoting, nutritious and varied diets, there is considerable interest in...
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Question: when is a seed not a seed?
Image: Mariana Ruiz Villarreal/Wikimedia Commons Answer: when it’s a DOI(!) You, dear readers, are probably familiar with electronic or on-line documents having a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), ‘a...
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80 shades of plants…
Around the world in 80 plants. Stephen Barstow. 2014. Permanent Publications I normally have to request copies of books to review, but for this one I was invited to review a copy. Suitably intrigued by...
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Something in the air? Volatiles influence mollusc attack on seedlings
Although pulmonate molluscs are the principal seedling herbivores in temperate grasslands and agriculture, we understand little about what drives seedling selection. Shannon et al. examined the roles...
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Life’s little certainties…
Jesse Kunerth / 123RF When Benjamin Franklin (diplomat, scientist, inventor, writer, founding father of the USA, etc.) penned the phrase “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death...
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