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 34: FLUORESCENT PINK SLUGS


What are you doing with your life? Are you having a good time? You’re about to because this here is another episode of the best podcast about plants and pipettes you’ll hear all day. This, is plants and pipettes – the podcast.

Try this non-privileged ice breaker: What is the most boring fact about yourself?

The paper of the week is: Flood, P.J., Theeuwen, T.P.J.M., Schneeberger, K. et al. Reciprocal cybrids reveal how organellar genomes affect plant phenotypes.Nat. Plants6, 13–21 (2020).

I am happy to say that our paper on reciprocal cybrids in Arabidopsis is now online, it has been 10 years in the making, here is the story behind the research 1/16https://t.co/KOyTDBTXv8

— Pádraic Flood (@PdraicFlood) January 13, 2020

Tegan’s favourite plant genus is Prasophyllum. This is the post by the Australian government about the threatened species.

Joram presents the life and work of Sophia Jex-Blake.

Tegan present the Von Restorff Effect

Change what you eat and not where it comes from

The Coronavirus brings researchers together in the fight against the disease. Buzzfeed collects misinformation about the outbreak.

This play-do cell is too cute.

Hey, @ThePlantCell, I made a plant cell! Ok, to be fair there is some “artistic license” going on in my version. To take slices I use something more like a guillotine than a microtome, they come out much straighter than when I “hand-section”. pic.twitter.com/6OIHbnDRMs

— Kim Snowden (@KimSnowden12) January 22, 2020

Penguin poo is pink

Production value and video likeability

Antifragile is a word

This is a fox in Joram’s garden

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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross

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