Nibbles: BananaGuard, Wheat has a blast, Grow your own antibiotic, Bhutanese cypress, Natural history collections, Genebanks big & small, Better grasslands, Local foodways

Who needs resistant banana varieties when you have synthetic biology? And more.
More trouble for wheat, and climate change is to blame. Maybe Vavilov can help there too?
DIY penicillin.
Saving the sacred cypress. Try saying that quickly.
What have herbaria ever done for us? Apart from giving us endless joy, you mean?
The Indian and other ‪genebanks‬ securing the future of food. But see also our earlier post on Dr Tyagi’s paper.
Aboriginal community gets a genebank.
We need better grass. No, not that kind of grass. Well, not only that kind of grass.
A pean for African food cultures. And Pacific ones too.