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- A much larger duck, effectively a submarine
We recorded this gem a while back but because Joram we are only publishing it now. So if any of our jokes feel dated, it’s because of that. Clearly. We are always very topical and on point with our humour.
- Maddox Prize 2023 – Sense about Science
- Gotta grow fast! – Plants and Pipettes
- Distribution, drivers and restoration priorities of plant invasions in India
- Epidermal bladder cells as a herbivore defense mechanism
- Genetic basis of the historical iron‐accumulating dgl and brz mutants in pea – Harrington – The Plant Journal – Wiley Online Library
- Composition, formation mechanism, and removal method of off‐odor in soymilk products
- Mutations in the genes responsible for the synthesis of furan fatty acids resolve the light‐induced off‐odor in soybean oil – Watanabe – The Plant Journal – Wiley Online Library
- Back from the Dead: New Hope for Resurrecting Extinct Plants – Yale E360.
- Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria | Nature Plants
- Elements of Style in Floral Arrangements: How Discerning Are Consumers Toward Floristry Design Principles and How Much Are They Willing to Pay?
- New secrets about cat evolution revealed | ScienceDaily
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
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1 hr 4 min - Is a grape just as sweet without the colour?
We have a packed episode for you with news from never-browning potatoes, mysterious sunflowers and also an answer to your constant question: How many cells are there?
- Argentinian scientists develop first Latin American genetically edited potato to prevent enzymatic browning
- EU legal proposal for genome-edited crops hints at a science-based approach
- You say genome editing, I say natural mutation | ScienceDaily
- Idiosyncratic and dose-dependent epistasis drives variation in tomato fruit size | Science
- Lateral gene transfer generates accessory genes that accumulate at different rates within a grass lineage – Raimondeau – New Phytologist
- flavour of grape colour: anthocyanin content tunes aroma precursor composition by altering the berry microenvironment | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- How sunflowers see the sun | ScienceDaily
- Multiple light signaling pathways control solar tracking in sunflowers | PLOS Biology
- New and Antifungal Diterpenoids of Sunflower against Gray Mold | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
- New calculations say there are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky | Science
- The geologic history of primary productivity: Current Biology
- Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals | ScienceDaily
- An orthogonalized PYR1-based CID module with reprogrammable ligand-binding specificity | Nature Chemical Biology
- Rats have an imagination, new research suggests | ScienceDaily
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52 min - The end was a little bit sad, but I liked the beginning
Did you know? We didn’t either! We were just as surprised as you are right now and let’s indulge in this feeling together with this new spoken word content by your favourite content producers!
- Flowers pollinated by honeybees make lower-quality seeds
- Honeybees (Apis mellifera) decrease the fitness of plants they pollinate | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Multiplex CRISPR editing of wood for sustainable fiber production | Science
- Prediction of on-target and off-target activity of CRISPR–Cas13d guide RNAs using deep learning | Nature Biotechnology
- Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients | Nature Plants
- New Article: Masting [irregular, cyclic, synchronous, unusually large production of seeds] is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients” – Twitter
- The Rise and Decay of the Wood Wide Web
- Would you eat the diaper mushrooms? Reading Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
- Airborne environmental DNA captures terrestrial vertebrate diversity in nature – Lynggaard – Molecular Ecology Resources – Wiley Online Library
- A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change
- Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi: Current Biology
- Play and tickling responses map to the lateral columns of the rat periaqueductal gray: Neuron
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52 min - Catnip could be pollinated by cats
Hi. This is a new episode. It’s about plants, pipettes, panic and paranoia. Please enjoy.
- Dyeing with Safflower | Wild Colours natural dyes
- Air-quality networks collect environmental DNA with the potential to measure biodiversity at continental scales: Current Biology
- Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA | Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing
- A critical analysis of plant science literature reveals ongoing inequities | PNAS
- Research | Rosemarks
- A pathogen effector FOLD diversified in symbiotic fungi – Teulet – New Phytologist – Wiley Online Library
- The molecular clock in long-lived tropical trees is independent of growth rate
- Joram’s piece on FOSS and science
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1 hr 11 min - I shot all my powder
We are talking pigweed. We are talking ATPase in diatoms. We are talking trees. What more do you want?!
- RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year / RHS Gardening
- Bird of the Year – Wikipedia
- The V-type ATPase enhances photosynthesis in marine phytoplankton and further links phagocytosis to symbiogenesis: Current Biology
- Early-Warning Signals of Individual Tree Mortality Based on Annual Radial Growth
- Pavement cells distinguish touch from letting go | Nature Plants
- Pigheaded pigweed- an amaranth that can’t be killed by Roundup – Plants and Pipettes
- Extrachromosomal circular DNA mediated spread of herbicide resistance in interspecific hybrids of pigweed
- Pigheaded pigweed- an amaranth that can’t be killed by Roundup – Plants and Pipettes
- Extrachromosomal circular DNA: A neglected nucleic acid molecule in plants – ScienceDirect
- Prescribed burning may produce refugia for invasive forb, Oncosiphon pilulifer – Schwab – Restoration Ecology – Wiley Online Library
- Light diffraction by sarcomeres produces iridescence in transmission in the transparent ghost catfish | PNAS
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56 min - Walk like an ant, look like a plant, be a spider
This week, it’s all about plants. What they do, why they do it and what to look out for when looking at plants. Marvellous!
- Carnivory on demand: phosphorus deficiency induces glandular leaves in the African liana Triphyophyllum peltatum – Winkelmann – New Phytologist – Wiley Online Library
- Nitrogen availability alters the expression of carnivory in the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea | PNAS
- Targeting of plasmodesmal proteins requires unconventional signals | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic
- Good vibrations: how listening to the sounds of soil helps us monitor and restore forest health
- Plant pan-genomes are the new reference
- Plant pan-genomics: recent advances, new challenges, and roads ahead – ScienceDirect
- phase-separated CO2-fixing pyrenoid proteome determined by TurboID in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic
- Imperfect ant mimicry contributes to local adaptation in a jumping spider: iScience
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1 hr 8 min - Plants are big straws
Welcome to Ants and Pipettes, the podcast about ants and their relationship to plants and also there are pipettes. I don’t know. Have fun!
- Recovery after long-term summer drought: Hydraulic measurements reveal legacy effects in trunks of Picea abies but not in Fagus sylvatica
- Scientists engineer the first light-powered yeast | Science | AAAS
- Using light for energy: examining the evolution of phototrophic metabolism through synthetic construction | bioRxiv
- Natural Coumarin Isomers with Dramatically Different AIE Properties: Mechanism and Application
- Have your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is coming | 3D printing | The Guardian
- Impact of varying macronutrient composition on the printability of pea-based inks in extrusion-based 3D food printing
- Macroecological diversification of ants is linked to angiosperm evolution | Evolution Letters | Oxford Academic
- Ants took over the world by following flowering plants out of prehistoric forests — ScienceDaily
- Soejatmi Dransfield – Wikipedia.
- Negativity drives online news consumption | Nature Human Behaviour
- Marvellous moths! pollen deposition rate of bramble (Rubus futicosus L. agg.) is greater at night than day | PLOS ONE
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52 min - Plants and Rats
In this episode, Joram harnesses the powers of technology to prepare himself in a much worse way, arguably. So learn from Joram and reject technology (after you finished using technology to listen to this show, please)!
- One hundred important questions facing plant science: an international perspective
- First Peoples’ knowledge leads scientists to reveal ‘fairy circles’ and termite linyji are linked in Australia | Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative: Cell
- Pollination of Specklinia by nectar-feeding Drosophila: the first reported case of a deceptive syndrome employing aggregation pheromones in Orchidaceae | Annals of Botany | Oxford Academic (2015 paper)
- Mimicking orchids lure bees from afar with exaggerated ultraviolet signals – Scaccabarozzi – 2023 – Ecology and Evolution – Wiley Online Library
- Chia seedlings verify Alan Turing’s ideas about patterns in nature
- Flower weather prediction
- Capybaras thrive, even near humans, because they’re not picky eaters
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1 hr 3 min - Draw Joram a picture of smart orchards, please
Yes, this is the plant podcast. No, we are not three people running it. Don’t listen to the bots. We know who we are. We think.
- Eponyms have no place in modern biology
- In the Name of Plants by Sandra Knapp | Waterstones
- Not just flowering time: a resurrection approach shows floral attraction traits are changing over time
- Genome-wide association study reveals WRKY42 as a novel plant transcription factor that influences oviposition preference of Pieris butterflies | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- ‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature
- Drug Delivery in Plants Using Silk Microneedles – Cao – 2023 – Advanced Materials – Wiley Online Library
- Single-cell proteomics: challenges and prospects | Nature Methods
- To the proteome and beyond: advances in single-cell omics profiling for plant systems
- Smart orchard design improves crop pollination
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault Virtual Tour
- Take A Peek Inside Svalbard’s “Doomsday” Seed Vault With This VR Tour | IFLScience
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault Virtual Tour
- Kew’s “Noah’s Ark” Seed Vault Hits 40,000 Species From Around The World | IFLScience
- Why don’t horseflies land on zebras? | Journal of Experimental Biology | The Company of Biologists
- Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack | PLOS ONE
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1 hr 2 min - Meow meow, meow meow meow!
Believe it or not, we had a chatBot write our title this week. Oh the wonders of science. Speaking of science: plants. Plant science. Sciency plants. planty planty planty science. Now!
- You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local – Our World in Data
- Multiple ecosystem service synergies and landscape mediation of biodiversity within urban agroecosystems – Jha – 2023 – Ecology Letters – Wiley Online Library
- We read The Garden Jungle by Dave Goulson in the Plant Book Club
- Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s
- Our Story on wasps and figs: There might have been a wasp in your fig – but don’t throw it away!
- Figs and Mulberries, inside and out | The Botanist in the Kitchen
- Korea’s Demilitarized Zone — Google Arts & Culture
- Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics
- Origins of Coca: Museum Genomics Reveals Multiple Independent Domestications from Progenitor Erythroxylum gracilipes | Systematic Biology | Oxford Academic
- Paper about gget by Laura Lübbert
- Using genome structure, rather than gene trees, to infer relationships in ancient allopolyploid lineages | Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community
- Genome structure-based Juglandaceae phylogenies contradict alignment-based phylogenies and substitution rates vary with DNA repair genes | Nature Communications
- Licorice is not only delicious it also acts as a pesticide
- Nagai Nagayoshi – Wikipedia
- CatGPT
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