A time bomb for world wheat crop - Instablogs
A time bomb for world wheat crop
Albert , Nairobi: Jun 15 2009
Made Popular Jun 15 2009
Kenya :
The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes. Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with motion detectors and surveillance cameras, government scientists at the Cereal Disease Laboratory in St....
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Nuya Bidness Jun 16 2009
Birmingham, United States
Ah! Lessons learned from the past.... are soon forgotten it seems.

Anyone who has an even rudimentary understanding of biology can tell you that biodiversity is rule #1 and can never be broken.

But in our zeal to provide more shelf stable products that can be shipped thousands of miles, we have forgotten the dangers of relying on 1 or 2 varieties of a ever smaller and smaller assortment of crops.

Irish Potato Famine..... need I say more?
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