Plants and Pipettes

Tegan and Joram explore the world of molecular plant research. How to plants sense their environment? What controls their metabolism? How do they store energy? Come along to an excursion into the very cells of all green things!

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episode 138: 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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 April 30, 2023  1h2m