Nibbles: C4 rice breeding, Tomato genes, Fruit/nut wild relatives, Peruvian cuisine

  • C4 rice: it’s really very, very complicated. And Ford Denison on the reason. Kinda.
  • Speaking of tradeoffs, this tomato taste vs colour story is everywhere. What is it about the (lack of) taste of tomatoes that gets people so riled up? And I wonder what the ones grown in Alaska taste like.
  • I International Symposium on Wild Relatives of Subtropical and Temperate Fruit and Nut Crops: the abstracts are online. Does it include the tomato. Nope, not getting into that one.
  • There are several subtropical and temperate fruit involved in Peruvian cuisine. Right? Come on, help me out with these segues.

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