Plants and Pipettes

A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.

Advent Day 4 – Kranz means ‘wreath’ in German – Plants and Pipettes

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And we’re back! Joram is taking care of yet another human and found the time to talk plant science. This week is just a bunch of cool science stories, next week we’ll be back with our regular structure. 

• How to Fight the Ever-Increasing Air Pollution in Delhi? 
• Indoor Air Quality Improvement by Simple Ventilated Practice and Sansevieria Trifasciata 
• (PDF) Hiding in plain sight, Ficus desertorum (Moraceae), a new species of rock fig for Central Australia
• Open Chemistry: What if we just give everything away?
• A fossil record of land plant origins from charophyte algae
• Epigenetically mismatched parental centromeres trigger genome elimination in hybrids
• Breeding plants with genes from one parent: Advance could shorten times for crop breeding
• Ancient Pine Cone Trapped in Amber Shows a Super-Rare Form of Plant ‘Parenting’
• Viviparity in tomatoes
• Scientists question Max Planck Society’s treatment of women leaders

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A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.

Advent Day 3 – Pretty Poinsettias, and the Caterpillars that spray them with acid.

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A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.

Advent Day 2 – Poinsettia – Plants and Pipettes

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Door 1 of our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.

Day 1 is about the first Christmas tree. You can read more about it here: Advent Day 1 – The First Christmas Tree – Plants and Pipettes.

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This is our final episode – before we have to go on a break because Joram can’t stop procreating and will have to raise yet another newborn human. Enjoy this short fun episode about Marianne North, the Holmes effect and not one but two plant hormones that made the news.

• Marianne North Gallery | Kew 
• Marianne North 
• Marianne North defied Victorian convention to paint world’s flowers
• Nepenthes northiana – Wikipedia 
• They Still Live in the Shadow of Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes 
• Plants evolved complexity in two bursts — with a 250-million-year hiatus 
• Tomato In Japan Is First CRISPR-Edited Food In The World To Go On Sale
• Full article: The effects of GABA in plants
• Yeast and bacteria together biosynthesize plant hormones for weed control: Synthetic strigolactones could also improve nutrient uptake in crops 
• Why can’t house cats roar? 
• Plant Book Club

We will be on a break for some time after this episode. We’re looking forward to talking to you about plant science again in the not-so-far future!

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Some people say, Joram is too close to still being sick in this episode. Those people are wrong. Joram is just a pretentious stuck up golfer who will never speak again with air freely travelling through his nose. So there’s that. Also, we have plant science for (for real!) and other… stuff. Like a stuffy nose. Bless you.

• Justus Niemeyer, David Scheuring, Julian Oestreicher, Bruce Morgan, Michael Schroda, Real-time monitoring of subcellular H2O2 distribution in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, The Plant Cell, Volume 33, Issue 9, September 2021, Pages 2935–2949
• Seeds inspire miniature sensors that float through the air
• Language extinction triggers the loss of unique medicinal knowledge  
• Invasive Cheatgrass Spreads Under City Lights
• Fifteen compelling open questions in plant cell biology
• Australian funder backflips on controversial preprint ban 
• Male seahorses grow placentas to incubate their young

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Who’s got one foot and so many chloroplasts? Well, not this guy but this weird sea slug. We talked about our friends the chloroplast stealing sea slugs before, and today we bring news on them from a recent study. Do the stolen chloroplasts really work? Find out this and more on today’s fresh episode!

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  • Eggbears
  • Eiersollbruchstellenverursacher
• Genetic autonomy and low singlet oxygen yield support kleptoplast functionality in photosynthetic sea slugs, Vesa Havurinne,  Maria Handrich,  Mikko Antinluoma,  Sergey Khorobrykh,  Sven B Gould, Esa Tyystjärvi, Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 72, Issue 15, 28 July 2021, Pages 5553–5568
• This sea slug steals chloroplasts and keeps them fresh (Plants and Pipettes)
• Sacoglossa 
• Development of non-transgenic glyphosate tolerant wheat by TILLING
• Artificial light pollution inhibits plant phenology advance induced by climate warming
• ‘Cake’ mentioned 10 times more than ‘climate change’ on UK TV – report
• Plant Science Band names
• Florida Man Fed Up With Potholes Plants Banana Tree In Middle Of Road
• An evidence-based 3D reconstruction of Asteroxylon mackiei, the most complex plant preserved from the Rhynie chert
• Flies like yellow, bees like blue: how flower colours cater to the taste of pollinating insects 
• Fly pollination drives convergence of flower coloration – Garcia – – New Phytologist – Wiley Online Library

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We’re starting the second batch: 101 to 200. This week, we’re talking STEAM, ivy, and plasma. Also, we finally uncover the personalities of cats. Come along!

• English Ivy (Hedera helix) , also common ivy
• ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG (project)
• Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (Wikipedia)
• ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG (website)
• Wake up and smell the extinct leucadendrons 
• Neglect of probability 
• Sueing the state for better climate action
• German climate change law violates rights, court rules 
• Cold plasma could transform the sustainable farms of the future
• Airborne sperms of Conocephalum conicum (liverworts) HD size movie 
• ‘Anti-rust’ coating for plants protects against disease with cellulose nanofiber
• Rolling pits of Hartmann’s mountain zebra (Zebra equus hartmannae) increase vegetation diversity and landscape heterogeneity in the Pre‐Namib 
• Scientists Studied Thousands of Cats And Identified 7 Distinct Personality Traits
•  Gato malo :: Thug Life

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It wasn’t always easy. It was no walk in the park. But with perseverance, focus and endurance we made it to 100 mostly plant science facts! I think we all deserve a round of applause, a pat on the back and a new hoya for the living room. Enjoy!

• Guano 
• Jumping Cholla: When Cacti Attack 
• Why is my orange green? | Plant Scientist 
• https://twitter.com/elsebeth_k/status/1430487511948738562 
• Clematis ‘Maria Sklodowska Curie’ – BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine 
• The ‘Confessions’ of Karl Marx (or these are a few of his favorite things) 
• Jean Nicot 
• ​​Racism lurks in names given to plants and animals. That’s starting to change 
• Decoloniality and anti-oppressive practices for a more ethical ecology 
• Nikolai Vavilov Episode 10: Tetris and the Seed Potatoes of Leningrad 
• Turgor pressure 
• Squirting Cucumber: The Plant That Explodes 
• Himalayan Balsam Explosive Seed Pods. Impatiens Glandulifera.
• A seed flying like a bullet: ballistic seed dispersal in Chinese witch-hazel (Hamamelis mollis OLIV., Hamamelidaceae) | Journal of The Royal Society Interface

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