At the Botanical Congress today Secrets of a voodoo plant revealed – it could reshape Australian crops, and rescue African farmers from a disastrous plant parasite How cotton was born: a million year-old mating opens up an improved future Is there too much cyanide in imported cassava products? Sister Water Lily meets the Big Bad…
At the Botanical Congress today Secrets of a voodoo plant revealed – it could reshape Australian crops, and rescue African farmers from a disastrous plant parasite How cotton was born: a million year-old mating opens up an improved future Is there too much cyanide in imported cassava products? Sister Water Lily meets the Big Bad…
A million year-old mating opens up an improved future A coming together and genetic merging of an American plant with an African or Asian plant one or two million years ago produced the ancestor of the bush that now provides 90% of the world’s commercial cotton. And although the resulting plant has been domesticated and…