Nibbles: Prof. Mithen, Commons, Park Grass, Maize genome dupe, Training breeders, Insect-eating fungi, Shea, Teff breeding, Cannabis genome, Organic study, Old sunflower domestication, Rick’s tomatoes

Developer of super broccoli reflects on his career. With photo of collectors in NSFW shorts.
Touring the commons of the world. Thankfully no tight shorts in sight.
Video explaining Rothamsted’s Park Grass experiment. Apparel entirely acceptable, don’t worry.
Ten million-year-old genome duplication finally came good when ancient farmers domesticated maize.
Training materials for African breeders to be developed.
Fungal diversity to the rescue of plants, for a change.
Africa’s black soap.
Improving teff. That’s a low bar, I suspect.
A genome I’m sure we can all get behind.
Oh dear, that organic meta-analysis “flawed” after all. Will it ever end?
Rethinking sunflower domestication. An oldie but goldie, which re-surfaced today for some reason. Does anyone know where we are with this now?
The Deliverance of tomatoes.