Nibbles: Wild tomatoes, Wild Allium, Early burials, Organic carrots

  • “By fitting gold wires to the back of individual whitefly and measuring the electro-chemical signals as they fed on the plant sap, the team found the insects spent more time ‘roaming’ and less time feeding on the wild varieties than those which settled on the commercial plants.”
  • New Iraqi plants includes onion wild relative.
  • Early farmers couldn’t stop fiddling with the bones of their dead.
  • “That message has come through clearly. Flavor is a priority because if people don’t want to eat carrots, they’re not going to buy them.”

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