Nibbles: Barley domestication, Apple pie, Mexican food & drink, CABI, Old seeds, IT

Secret of barley brittle rachis revealed. In other news, there’s a Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls.
Bramley apple pie filling protected. But from who?
Participatively bred Oaxacan maize finds a market niche.
Have some tequila with that participatively bred Oaxacan maize.
“We can call a government and tell them our data is telling us that a pest is on the way.”
The coolness of seeds.
Yeah but “[g]ood seed in the wrong place is no longer good seed.”