Nibbles: Tomato colour, INBio demise, Specimens, Plant lore, Ancient chickens, Edible flowers, Urban veg, Trees & nutrition

Deconstructing the colour of tomatoes. h/t @kctomato INBio folds? Or (h/t Jacob) government takes responsibility? Discussion on whether natural history specimens are necessary. So there’s a place where you can record your plant lore. No word on whether that’s linked to specimens. Yellow skin in chickens is a recent trait. Specimens involved. Part of that …

Looking for leimotifs in the early history of wheat and rice

There are two papers out just now which review in detail archaeobotanical and genetic data to elucidate the early history of crops. Dorian Fuller and numerous co-authors do it for Asian rice (Oryza sativa) ((Fuller, D., Sato, Y., Castillo, C., Qin, L., Weisskopf, A., Kingwell-Banham, E., Song, J., Ahn, S., & Etten, J. (2010). Consilience …