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Tricking garlic to set seeds

27. September 202224. October 2022

The garlic has become “lazy” after thousands of years of vegetative propagation via cloves and top sets. But we can fool the hardneck cultivars by removing the top bulbs early…

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CULTON – An info source for the world’s useful species

25. August 20227. November 2022

After three years of development, Bi-O are pleased to launch the CULTON Foundation, a non-profit Norwegian-registered foundation that will develop the first complete overview of plant cultivars and animal breeds….

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Crossing for new sunchokes

19. September 202122. September 2021

Here are the results of many years of work with crossing sunchoke varieties to achieve varieties with day neutrality and plain shape. Full report here: 2021-09-19-dagnoytral-196-crosses.pdf

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Testing new Sunchoke varieties at Lavangsnes Wunderkammer

10. September 202129. January 2022

Sunchokes (also called Jerusalem artichoke) seldomly develops mature seeds in Norway.  A few years ago Stephen Barstow therefore contacted Paolo Gaiardelli, an Italian plant enthusiast you can come across in…

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Variety preservation of Vossakvann

28. August 20219. August 2022

Here is a report from our work with two of three known remaining lines of Vossakvann. First seed batch from ‘Teigdalen’ This year, the Teigdalen field was ready for the…

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Tree onion

4. August 202122. August 2021

We now offer four varieties of Tree onion, and they are quite different in terms of crop volume, how the bulbs grow and how strong they are against rust fungus….

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About Bi-O

The sustainable food production of the future is ecologically conscious, and as local and socially integrated as possible.

Bi-O is working for the transition to a sustainable society with a focus on food security and food sovereignty. Everyone who wants it should have access to knowledge, technology, seeds, plants, livestock, fungi and microorganisms to be able to build their own production systems. From october 2021 we are a part of Transition Network.

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