Nibbles: Rust, Old rice, More old rice, Sticky rice, Mesoamerican balls, Prioritization, Legumes

  • Rust boffins meet in St Petersburg. Good luck to them: sounds like they’ll need it.
  • Did 3000-year-old rice really sprout in Vietnam? Nah.
  • Indian farmers queue up for old rice seeds. Not old as in the Vietnam case above though.
  • And more rice. Did the Chinese really use the sticky kind in mortar 1500 years ago? Yep.
  • More ancient technology. This time Mayan rubber.
  • “…a major leap forward in species-area relationship fitting…”: where will future habitat loss wreak the most havoc on plant species? And on crop wild relatives?
  • The pulses of Africa. Well, a couple of them.