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 61: Hummingbird popsicles – Elecampane, Segenet Kelemu and genome editing detection


Hello! We have a podcast for you. We talk about the plant that made creamy icecream possible, awesome plant scientists from Ethiopia and stone cold birds.

Tegan’s favourite plant is Elecampane (Inula helenium). Vegan honey is made with inulin

Segenet Kelemu is an Ethiopian plant pathologist. Here is a short video portrait on her.

How to miss a gorilla in a data set. (Original gorilla video experiment)

  • Our post on CRISR, Greepeace, and plant research
  •  Poppies are beautiful
  • Thin, printable solar cells: 2016, 2020
  • Flavour of wine, chocolate and hops: Terroir, or genetics, or microbes?
  • Live fast, die young – trees are James Dean fans, unfortunately
  • Flowers growing out of flowers are not a good sign
  • Hummingbird popsicle. Birdstrips on instagram

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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross

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 September 11, 2020  1h17m