Climate robust coffee That cup of coffee you drank this morning, it was likely made from Arabica coffee beans. However, the Arabica coffee plant is a bit delicate. It likes gentle temperatures and is disease sensitive. The expectation is that due to climate change its production decreases with 80%. But don’t worry, there is anContinue reading “Climate robust coffee”
Category Archives: Plant breeding
Starting points
Starting points In the never ending battle between plant and herbivory insects researchers search for ways to make plants less attractive. Like Dutch researchers show, this starts with the analysis of how insects manages to dodge the plant defence systems. Herbivory insects excrete with their saliva proteins that slow down the plant defence reaction. JustContinue reading “Starting points”
Carrot history
Carrot history This time I would like to talk about carrots. About the ever-present orange one, but also about the white, yellow, and purple variants. A group of American and Polish researchers resequenced the genome of 630 carrot variants. Through doing this they deciphered a lot about its history and its orange colour. Wild carrotsContinue reading “Carrot history”
Orange flowers
Maybe orange will be possible For lots of flower breeders have one wish: breeding a flower with a unique colour. This allows their flower to stick out in a bunch of flowers. Despite their wish to be unique, some colours remain unattainable. Simply because the plant does not have the enzymes to make that specificContinue reading “Orange flowers”
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