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What was on the prehistoric menu?
Jordan, Carretero’s teams showed a number of crumbs from the ‘world’s oldest bread’ contained tissues linked to club-rush tubers (Bolboschoenus maritimus). On the other side of Europe, on the island of Harris within Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, Rosie...
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My Lab Unlocked: Professor Nigel Halford FRSB
Acrylamide is a carcinogenic processing contaminant that forms in fried, baked, roasted and toasted foods made from grains, tubers, storage roots and beans. Food businesses have to comply with increasingly difficult regulations on its presence in their...
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The biosecurity front line
michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus) on potato in 2003 cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to eradicate, with 165,000 tubers tested and more than 1,500 tonnes of high-value seed potatoes destroyed or used as animal feed. Some quotes from the time said the...
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Domestication of Plants in the Old World
treatment to 12 cereal species, 10 pulses, seven oil and fibre crops, 18 species of fruits and nuts, 15 vegetables and tubers, four condiments and five dye crops. Some evidence has changed – DNA now shows that barley, whose classic wild distribution...
