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Detritus. Le monde selon monsanto (complet) Fiber,carbon fiber sleeve,Kevlar sleeve, fiberglass sleeves,carbon fiber fabric,epoxy,west system epoxy,nitrile,gloves,nitrile gloves,aramid,fiberglass,kevlar,tape,biaxial tape, biaxial sleeve. Los tomates volverán a saber a tomate. Más noticias de: biotecnología, genética Ampliar Antonio Granell ha probado uno de los tomates más sabrosos del planeta. Un tomate que sabía de verdad a tomate o incluso mejor. El supertomate. El secreto de su sabor se encuentra en uno de sus aproximadamente 35.000 genes, el llamado GLK2. En los entresijos genéticos de la planta hay muchísimo dinero en juego. Más azúcares El gen de marras, cuentan hoy los científicos en la revista Science, tiene las instrucciones para formar una proteína, la GLK2, que aumenta la capacidad de la fruta para transformar la energía del sol en azúcares mediante la fotosíntesis.

Los científicos han detectado que la maduración uniforme del tomate buscada durante décadas va asociada a una mutación en el gen GLK2. No obstante, los científicos han contado de alguna manera con la colaboración de Monsanto, el gigante estadounidense de los transgénicos. “La única relación con Monsanto ahora es que son propietarios de Seminis”, explica Powell. Un futuro con sabor. Erowid. Huerto. Échanges sur la permaculture.

Bioterre. Agriculture-alimentation. MONSANTO / OGM. Farming. WWOOF - World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. Farm Supply. Real Time Farms - Know Where Your Food Comes From. Alimentación Agricultura Pesca. Smart Meters, Science and Belief. Annie Tritt for The New York TimesDeborah Tavares, with a sign protesting smart-meter installations, in Sebastopol, Calif. In researching Monday’s article about opposition to smart meters, I found myself once again facing a dilemma built into environmental reporting: how to evaluate whether claims of health effects caused by some environmental contaminant — chemicals, noise, radiation, whatever — are potentially valid? I turned, as usual, to the peer-reviewed science. But some very intelligent people I interviewed had little use for the existing (if sparse) science. How, in a rational society, does one understand those who reject science, a common touchstone of what is real and verifiable?

The absence of scientific evidence doesn’t dissuade those who believe childhood vaccines are linked to autism, or those who believe their headaches, dizziness and other symptoms are caused by cellphones and smart meters. What gives? Dr. Here, slightly edited and condensed, is Mr. In New York City, Growing Greens As Art and Local Food - Environment. I was sitting on a desk in Jenna Spevack’s studio for about 20 minutes before I realized it was actually a piece of art. It was a month before her the opening of her show, "8 Extraordinary Greens," and the pieces were still stuffed into her studio, a corner of a vast shared space on the 7th floor of a former bank in Brooklyn. Trays of Spevack’s greens sat on the bookshelf, and she had shown me a small suitcase in which she’d installed one of the mini-farms. She had pulled out the table so we could sit down to talk, but I’d popped on top in order to sit a little closer to her.

She hadn’t said anything at the time, but when we started getting into the details of the show, she pointed under the table. “Part of the show are these converted objects,” she said. I looked underneath the desk, in the well where a chair would go. 8 Extraordinary Greens opened last week in New York, at the Chelsea gallery Mixed Greens. Photo courtesy of Jenna Spevack. Corn.jpg (1023×675) Gates-infographic.png (1280×889) Eccentric town, Todmorden, growing ALL its own veg. By Vincent Graff Updated: 16:31 GMT, 10 December 2011 Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too.

Outside the police station in the small Victorian mill town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, there are three large raised flower beds. If you’d visited a few months ago, you’d have found them overflowing with curly kale, carrot plants, lettuces, spring onions — all manner of vegetables and salad leaves. Today the beds are bare. Food for thought: Todmorden resident Estelle Brown, a former interior designer, with a basket of home-grown veg Well, that’s not quite correct. ‘I watch ’em on camera as they come up and pick them,’ says desk officer Janet Scott, with a huge grin. For the vegetable-swipers are not thieves. The vegetable plots are the most visible sign of an amazing plan: to make Todmorden the first town in the country that is self-sufficient in food. ‘It’s a very ambitious aim. ‘Nothing,’ says Mary. What’s to stop me nabbing all the apples?

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