Olericulture.org provides links to websites and research articles in the applied life science olericulture. The site focusses on the numerous scientific and commercial aspects of the cultivation and production of vegetables. Other categories deal with aspects of bamboo agronomy and several environmental topics.

Plant biologists were offered a dream ticket last week: US$50 million to address the biggest challenges in their field. But the money comes with a catch. It can't be used to generate new data, only to create user-friendly computational tools. And, perhaps hardest of all, researchers have to persuade others in the field to collaborate on how to spend the funds.