Plants and Pipettes

By Joram Schwartzmann and Tegan Armarego-Marriott

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February 05, 2024A 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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November 17, 2023Is 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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August 17, 2023The 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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52min
July 21, 2023Catnip 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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1h 11min
June 20, 2023I 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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June 08, 2023Walk 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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1h 8min
May 26, 2023Plants 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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52min
April 30, 2023Plants 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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1h 3min
March 21, 2023Draw 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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1h 2min
March 06, 2023Meow 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
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54min

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