Plants and Pipettes

A new episode is here! We’re talking about a sheep made of vegetables in the mountains, microneedles on plant leaves and the amazin work of Joanne Chory. 

• Raoulia
• Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
• Alpine Cushion Plants New Zealand
• Bloom of the Week – Vegetable Sheep 
• Joanne Chory
  • Washington Post article: Joanne Chory is harnessing plants to stop climate change
  • The Scientist: Into the Light: A Profile of Joanne Chory 
  • Harnessing Plants Initiative 
  • Her TED talk: Joanne Chory: How supercharged plants could slow climate 
• Genome-wide role of codon usage on transcription and identification of potential regulators
• Codon usage bias and nuclear mRNA concentration: Correlation vs. causation
• Reply to Qian and Zhang: Demonstration of the effect of codon usage on transcription by multiple approaches from fungi to animal cells 

• The dark side of our houseplant obsession
  • Harriet Thompson sells peat-free house plants
• A simple and efficient agroinfiltration method for transient gene expression in Citrus
• EC study on new genomic techniques | Food Safety
• The genomes of ancient date palms germinated from 2,000 y old seeds 
• Mangroves and seagrasses absorb microplastics 
• Plastic in your Plants – Plants and Pipettes
• Plant signals differentially affect rhizosphere nematode populations | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
• Benzoxazinoids selectively affect maize root-associated nematode taxa
• These strange salt ‘creatures’ could help unclog power plant pipes 

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