- Will the world ever tire of hot pepper stories?
- Would you like to work at the Millennium Seed Bank?
- The Guardian hymns Howard-Yana Shapiro, the “vegan hippy scientist” who wants to open orphan crop genomes.
- Patrick links to Arche Noah’s response to the new EU seed laws.
- Laws that don’t bother Gene Logsdon, planter of old seed.
- IRRI claims that rice seed aids Bangladesh’s cyclone recovery, but frankly, I can barely read it.