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 96: Derp – Social Ferns, Salty Greens, Dark Biofilms


Fly like a lemur, sting like an ant in a crow, as my late grandfather used to say to me before I was born. With that in mind, let’s talk about some plant facts. We have new organs, delicious salty plants and a first of its kind almost-social fern. Let’s go!

  • Flying lemur photos
  • These ferns may be the first plants known to share work like ants
  • Primitive eusociality in a land plant? – Burns – – Ecology – Wiley Online Library 
  • Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
  • Sodium addition increases leaf herbivory and fungal damage across four grasslands
  • The dark side of rocks: An underestimated high‐quality food resource in river ecosystems
  • A widely studied lab plant has revealed a previously unknown organ
  • The sex organs of baobab flowers may solve the puzzle of trees that bear more fruit
  • Reproductive ecology of the African baobab: Floral features differ among individuals with different fruit production 
  • A microbial eukaryote with a unique combination of purple bacteria and green algae as endosymbionts

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 June 18, 2021  1h28m