We recorded in advance but then Joram edited late so overall it evens out to just be a day late in your feed. Not that you care, we know you live life like us, one moment at a time, not knowing what day of the week is today. At least we hope you do so we look less messy. Anyway – plants!

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We are back from the break! We are completely different but also pretty much the same so come along and learn about mucus seeds, pink cotton, dandelion physics and a play performed by two very much non-actors.

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While plant science missed out on yet another Nobel prize, you are not missing out on yet another great plant science episode. We have a hairy balled plant, some evidence about ATP and a whole Can of Spinach!

• Bits und Bäume
• Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 
• Gomphocarpus physocarpus – Wikipedia
• Gomphocarpus physocarpus
• Reward research for being useful — not just flashy
• A bryophyte-like polymer layer protected supercapacitor electrode with enhanced cycling stability
• A nuclear import pathway exploited by pathogenic noncoding RNAs 
• Every Life Form on Earth Uses The Same Chemical For Energy. This Could Explain Why. : ScienceAlert
• A prebiotic basis for ATP as the universal energy currency | PLOS Biology 
• Massive crossover suppression by CRISPR–Cas-mediated plant chromosome engineering
• Algae as microscopic biorefineries — ScienceDaily
• In vivo Olefin Metathesis in Microalgae Upgrades Lipids to Building Blocks for Polymers and Chemicals – Schunck – Angewandte Chemie International Edition – Wiley Online Library
• Structure of wheat immune protein resolved — important tool in the battle for food security — ScienceDaily
• A wheat resistosome defines common principles of immune receptor channels | Nature 
• CAN OF SPINACH, a novel long non-coding RNA, affects iron deficiency responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
• Ahmet’s answer on twitter
• Watch A Houseplant Control A Machete-Wielding Robotic Arm, For Science | IFLScience
• Increasing evidence that bears are not carnivores: Given a choice, captive bears mimic mixed diets of wild peers — ScienceDaily
• Ursids evolved early and continuously to be low-protein macronutrient omnivores | Scientific Reports

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They trained dogs to search for underground orchids and we trained ourselves to talk about it. Amazing.

• The first evidence of microplastics in plant-formed fresh-water micro-ecosystems: Dipsacus teasel phytotelmata in Slovakia contaminated with MPs
• ‘Like finding life on Mars’: why the underground orchid is Australia’s strangest, most mysterious flower
• PROFILE | MAREE ELLIOTT
• To protect this rare underground orchid, researchers are keeping its location top secret – ABC News
• NOTES ON AUSTRALASIAN ORCHIDS 6: A NEW SPECIES OF Rhizanthella (DIURIDEAE, SUBTRIBE PRASOPHYLLINAE) FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA
• Rhizanthella gardneri – Wikipedia
• Rampant Gene Loss in the Underground Orchid Rhizanthella gardneri Highlights Evolutionary Constraints on Plastid Genomes – PMC
• Pando’s pulse: Vital signs signal need for course correction at world-renowned aspen forest
• Identification and quantification of giant bioaerosol particles over the Amazon rainforest | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
• Palynology – Wikipedia
• The Effect of Species Soybean Vein Necrosis Orthotospovirus (SVNV) on Life Table Parameters of Its Vector, Soybean Thrips (Neohydatothrips variabilis Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
• Sorting of mitochondrial and plastid heteroplasmy in Arabidopsis is extremely rapid and depends on MSH1 activity | PNAS 
• Social networks in the single cell | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
• Altered collective mitochondrial dynamics in the Arabidopsis msh1 mutant compromising organelle DNA maintenance
• Daily briefing: Most US professors went to the same few universities
• The Story of the 2021 World Lemur Festival Logo

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Last week, we wanted to be moss and this week science has listened to us and turned human (cells) into moss. Well kinda. Not really. A little bit. Still, we’re excited to become moss.

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If we could choose, we’d be mosses growing on opposite sides of the same tree.

• The ‘majestic’ Singapore orchid named in honour of Queen Elizabeth II | Deccan Herald 
• Angela Merkel – Epiphyllum.online – The Epric Foundation
• Ferns Are Super Weird – And Their Genomes Are Even More Chaotic Than We Thought : ScienceAlert
• Inselberg – Wikipedia
• Inselberg vegetation and the biodiversity of granite outcrops
• President Biden Announces Intent to Appoint Dr. Renee Wegrzyn as Inaugural Director of Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) – The White House 
• Renee Wegrzyn – Wikipedia
• High plant diversity is often found in the smallest of areas — ScienceDaily
• A thirsty secret (the episode we talked about the first cocoa paper) 
• Collection of native Theobroma cacao L. accessions from the Ecuadorian Amazon highlights a hotspot of cocoa diversity 
• Variability and genetic determinants of cocoa aromas in trees native to South Ecuadorian Amazonia
• Common weed may be ‘super plant’ that holds key to drought-resistant crops — ScienceDaily
• Genetically Modified Purple Tomatoes Will Be Popping Up On US Plates By Next Spring | IFLScience
• Learning to Love G.M.O.s – The New York Times 
• Roundup and glyphosate’s impact on GABA to elicit extended proconvulsant behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans | Scientific Reports
• Correlated retrograde and developmental regulons implicate multiple retrograde signals as coordinators of chloroplast development in maize
• Conifer communication is complex and can be altered by air pollution
• Humans And Cockatoos Are Embroiled in an Escalating ‘Arms Race’ in Australia : ScienceAlert
• An arms race over food waste: Sydney cockatoos are still opening kerb-side bins, despite our best efforts to stop them

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Would you trust us if we spoke badly about cheese? This, and other science facts in our newest plant science show for you!

• WELCOME BACK! (our story about the great mistletoe)

• A seed‐like proteome in oil‐rich tubers – Niemeyer – The Plant Journal – Wiley Online Library
• Cyperus esculentus – Wikipedia
• Cyperus rotundus – Wikipedia
• Amborella – Wikipedia

• The colonisation of land was a likely driving force for the evolution of mitochondrial retrograde signalling in plants
• The GENOMES UNCOUPLED1 protein has an ancient, highly conserved role but not in retrograde signalling
• The forgotten organelle – Plants and Pipettes
• Self-pollinating plant shows rapid loss of genetic variation — ScienceDaily 
• Spatially patterned hydrogen peroxide orchestrates stomatal development in Arabidopsis | Nature Communications
• How death’s-head hawkmoths manage to fly straight in the dark | Science News

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Sometimes, technology makes our lives better. On other occasions, it makes it much harder. This week was one of those times, the recording equipment failed on us. We still did a fun show full of cool plant science, it just doesn’t sound as nice. Sorry!

• Indigofera tinctoria – Wikipedia
• Isatis tinctoria – Wikipedia
• Indigo dye – Wikipedia 
• Eliza Lucas – Wikipedia 
• South Carolina Gardener, Botanist, & Agriculturalist Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793)
• The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone-American Connection 
• Phytotelma – Wikipedia
• Aquatic islands in the sky: 100 years of research on water‐filled tree holes – Petermann – 2022 – Ecology and Evolution – Wiley Online Library
• Facts Are No Longer Convincing. Research Suggests You Should Say This Instead
• Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts | PNAS  
• Flower shape and size impact bees’ chances of catching gut parasites | Science News
• Effect of water availability on volatile‐mediated communication between potato plants in response to insect herbivory – Vázquez‐González – Functional Ecology – Wiley Online Library 
• An oxygen-sensing mechanism for angiosperm adaptation to altitude | Nature
• The US Navy Put Cameras on Dolphins And The Results Are Wild : ScienceAlert

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We’re back from our holidays and we brought a big bag of plant facts from the last couple of weeks of plant science!

• Pollinators of the sea: A discovery of animal-mediated fertilization in seaweed | Science
• Improving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection | Science
• Uwe Sonnewald on Twitter about the paper
• Rethinking the retraction process | Science
• GMO chestnuts could save tree populations
• Ancient plastid genomes solve the tree species mystery of the imperial wood “Nanmu” in the Forbidden City, the largest existing wooden palace complex in the world
• Nanmu – Wikipedia
• Collection of native Theobroma cacao L. accessions from the Ecuadorian Amazon highlights a hotspot of cocoa diversity
• 15 years of experiments have overturned a major assumption about how thirsty plants actually are
• Humidity gradients in the air spaces of leaves | Nature Plants
• Toward Targeted Invasive Predator Control: Developing pH-Responsive Subcutaneous Implants for Native Mammals | ACS Applied Polymer Materials
• Poison Peas and the Australian Arms Race – Plants and Pipettes

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No big plant news this week, we are on holiday for a couple of weeks! Talk to you soon!