1. Today our paper “How did Mendel arrive at his discoveries?” came out in @NatureGenetics. Why did nobody in the 19th century do what #Mendel did? We, Peter van Dijk @KeyGeneInfo, Noel Ellis @JohnInnesCentre and Adrienne Jessop, wrote a Perspective. nature.com/articles/s4158… 2. Two recently found 1861-newspaper articles stated that Mendel had an applied vegetable breeding and a scientific research program: “Fr. Gregor Mendl is concerned with…..experiments, which are aimed at improving the vegetable and flower varieties cultivated in our region.”