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12 May 2025
Wild caraway could be the key to future cultivation
Researchers at 91Ƶ have found that wild-growing caraway, with its genetic diversity and adaptation to the Nordic climate, could play a crucial role in future spice cultivation as climate change progresses.
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13 November 2024
Ancient seeds give clues on climate change
Thousand-year-old seeds, and traces hidden in the soil for more than 5,000 years, provide clues to how people and their crops were affected by climate change. This knowledge may help us adapt to changes in our lifetime and in the future.
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09 January 2017
Hidden seeds reveal Canary Islands history
Have you tried the national dish gofio while on holiday on the Canary Islands? If so, you have eaten the same food as the original inhabitants ate, nearly 2,000 years ago.
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13 December 2018
“Lecturing – so inefficient”
Lectures in the 91Ƶ course in evolution have given way to active work in small groups. Future biologists and students planning to become upper secondary teachers study together.
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18 January 2022
Celebrated barley came from a single plant
The 200-year-old malting barley variety 'Chevalier' was for a long time world-leading in beer brewing and is thought to have originated from a single plant. Researchers have investigated this claim in a new study.
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03 September 2020
Biology in the sunshine
Students move outside to minimize the risk of spreading Corona.
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31 August 2021
Historical seeds reveal unique barley grown in the Storsjö district
Differences in long-distance trade can have significant effects on genetic diversity in agriculture. A study of 120-year-old seed samples from Jämtland shows that unique local varieties can develop when seed exchange instead takes place locally.
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04 November 2019
Laestadius, crop failure and barley in Fennoscandia
Is it possible that a single individual influenced which crops were cultivated over large areas of Fennoscandia? In a new study, clues from DNA from old barley indicate that the priest Lars-Levi Laestadius may have played an important role.
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22 November 2018
Rediscovering the potato onion
Have you ever eaten a potato onion? It’s highly likely, but you probably called it a ‘shallot’. Now researchers have studied this lesser known relative of the common bulb onion, and we may be seeing a renaissance of this venerable vegetable among...