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 54: Pavlov’s pea plants


This week, we’re talking about plant intelligence and whether or not a pea plant can be conditioned like a dog.

Markel, K. (2020). Lack of evidence for associative learning in pea plants. ELife, 9.

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 July 10, 2020  1h31m