Plants and Pipettes

Plants and Rats

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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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    Plants and PipettesBy Joram Schwartzmann and Tegan Armarego-Marriott
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