{"id":253,"date":"2017-05-18T23:08:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/?p=253"},"modified":"2017-05-25T00:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T00:42:06","slug":"rete-semi-rurali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/2017\/05\/18\/rete-semi-rurali\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting started at Rete Semi Rurali"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mixture of local maize varieties at RSR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The seeds of maize I had\u00a0the pleasure to plant on my first day at Rete Semi Rurali have now germinated and are well underway.\u00a0They’re a mixture of different Italian local varieties\u00a0and\u00a0they\u00a0will cross pollinate with one another this season to\u00a0generate an evolutionary population of maize for years to come.<\/p>\n

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Stefano, the baker at RSR with his freshly baked sourdough bread made with sone ground flour of local wheat varieties<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve joined my research host Rete Semi Rurali (RSR)<\/a> at the beginning of May. Time has passed very quickly as I have been tasked with collating\u00a0all historical information and\u00a0data available in RSR’s archive, about their work with evolutionary populations of wheat and barley since 2010. It’s been a steep learning curve, at least as steep as the 16% slope I cycle each morning to get to their office!<\/p>\n

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RSR – my office for the next two monts… and my trusty bike!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are now preparing for the upcoming field day at Giuseppe Li Rosi’s farm in Aidone, near Catania, Sicily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The seeds of maize I had\u00a0the pleasure to plant on my first day at Rete Semi Rurali have now germinated and are well underway.\u00a0They’re a mixture of different Italian local varieties\u00a0and\u00a0they\u00a0will cross pollinate with one another this season to\u00a0generate an evolutionary population of maize for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolutionary-plant-breeding","category-field-research","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/matteo-petitti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}