Yesterday I sent an Italian translation of the information on “Golden rice” from the Smithsonian magazine, signaled to us by Bill Lee, to people interested in bulbs. In many European countries (and elsewhere in the world too) biased…
Golden rice
Day: August 8, 2010
Golden Rice and Daffodils–but don’t eat them!
In a message dated 8/8/2010 6:28:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, writes: Vitamin A and Alzheimers medicine . . .and we thought they were just pretty yellow flowers. This should not be taken as a recommendation to add daffodils to your…
Golden Rice and Daffodils
Friends, Below is an exercpt from my Plants and People Lecture Guide on Golden Rice: “Golden Rice” See Chap. 5:256. a. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, about 250 million people worldwide are deficient in Vitamin A. The…
Daff Box of Cookies
Three weeks ago we found ourselves at Kew Gardens for the first time. I asked the guide to point our where I may have seen daffodils if I had been there a few months earlier. He pointed behind me and…
Feed me …
I was astounded to bump into a daffodil almost 6 feet tall in the hallway of our health club. I tried to groom it for this shot, but its neck was too stiff. And the foliage seemed to have mutated…