Nibbles: EATx Cali, Gourds, Armenian wine, Wheat chemistry, Genomics of domestication, Soybean breeding

Svalbard among things being discussed at EATx Cali today. Who knows, maybe other genebanks too?
The cucumber’s wilder relatives.
Armenian wine going back to the future.
Whole grains deconstructed.
Unpicking domestication in chickens and cattle. And the original paper on the latter, featuring the aurochs genome.
Breeders have bred omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) out of soybeans, but are now going back to wild relatives to breed it back in.