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.”

A paean to diverse diets is just what we all need.
And another one, from the MIT Technology Review of all places.
Menawhile, there’s only one reference to dietary diversity in the World Bank’s investment framework for nutrition.
Maybe you have to quantify that diversity before you can save it? Now where have I heard that before?
Meanwhile, Europe reports on biodiversity-friendly farming practices. Does that include the biodiversity of the actual crops? Perhaps surprisingly, yes!
You want biodiversity-friendly farming practices? Talk to Indigenous people. The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has launched an e-consultation on “Preserving, strengthening and promoting Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and traditional practices for sustainable food systems.”
There’s diversity in asparagus too.
Genebanks can help with those biodiversity-friendly practices, diverse diets and rops and Indigenous practices.
Even big international genebanks.
Even the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
But some are in trouble.
Though others are coming back.