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 95: Don’t do Chromothripsis, kids! – Epigenetics, NPAAs, quick fixes


I said hey, what’s going on? We’re more or less vaxxed, we’re excited about summer and we’re bringing plant facts! We’re diving deep into epigenetics, discuss climate fixes and talk for a surprisingly long time about marsupial genitalia. The usual.

CRISPR-based targeting of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana by a bacterial CG-specific DNA methyltransferase
Basudev Ghoshal, Colette L. Picard, Brandon Vong, Suhua Feng, Steven E. Jacobsen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jun 2021, 118 (23) e2125016118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2125016118

  • Photo contest by the Canadian Phytopathological society (submitted by Sara)
  • holly draws — comics
  • Holly McKelvey (@holljmck)
  • ‘Quick fixes’ to the climate crisis risk harming nature 
  • Human-food feedback in tropical forests
  • Nectar non-protein amino acids (NPAAs) do not change nectar palatability but enhance learning and memory in honey bees 
  • A plant-based diet may lower severity of COVID-19 infection by 73 per cent 
  • Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing (nature.com)
  • Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing (bioRxiv)
  • Echidnas Have Four-Tipped Penises, And Scientists Want to Understand Why
  • SEDUCE ME: Duck | From Green Porno’s Isabella Rossellni

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