A recent report places AoB PLANTS Handling Editor Kermit Ritland at the center of a commercial breeding programme of paw paw. “This guy Si Brown is so interesting” Kermit comments; “[He] made a cold call to me one day, that is the way venture capitalists work. Si got a degree in Plant Ecology from McGill University but ended up in business, and does all these high-end business deals […] Botany and business can work together.”
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