Barbara

"PNW" = "Pacific North west"?

Alnus incana and glutinosa has thin "rims", I suppose you could call
them "wings". The whole thing has to be bred bigger, but the wing may
not come off as a single piece which can be separated by winnowing and
seiving methods. That may not matter. I propose grinding/milling in
usual way. Some people pay more for "Brown bread"

I know there is a long way to go, and many obstacles be overcome, but
now that I have a highly productive variety, all that I need now is
bigger seeds, and alder can "take off". After that there will be
continual improvement, far beyond my time. Wheat has been in
cultivation for 10 000 years and it is still being worked on.

Michael

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Barbara Bliss wrote:

Michael Bell:

Alnus rubra is the PNW coastal upland N-fixing pioneer ("weed") species. The
seed has wings. To use it as a grain, you'd need to get that off (Bradley
Sherman used the sprouts, not the grain). Has anybody done that? another
important thing to know will be how long seeds remain viable, and, if they
are to be marketed as a food, how long they remain of nutritive value.
Getting the germplasm will be free and easy; proving it is worth doing will
be trickier. A lot has been done to select for herbs (corn, rice) with
highly nutritive endosperm already, and each improvement is time consuming
and costly.

The Populus trichocarpa genome has been sequenced, however, and it is a
close relative of Alnus, so could prove helpful.

bb

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:

Barbara Bliss wrote:
Does Alnus have any food value? How would one prepare it?


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