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 56: Worm twitter is angry – Sunflowers, worm discrimination, beautiful snails


Don’t you dare disrespect our favourite model organism, Arabidopsis. No wait, we love tobacco and hate Arabidopsis. No! Both are the WORST, we love Chlamydomonas above everything else! Or were we team sunflower? 

Paper of the week: Massive haplotypes underlie ecotypic differentiation in sunflowers; Blog post “behind the paper”: Adaptive alleles stick together

  • Worm Twitter is angry
  • Unequal effects of Covid-19 pandemic on scientists
  • Racism in science is real
  • Snails under threat
  • Why even smart people fall for bad science
  • Music for plants (found in this article)
  • 1 Million seeds in vault 
  • Disruptive cat tail
  • Cat brings swimming goggles

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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross

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 July 24, 2020  1h15m