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 105: Where would you hide a fig? – air pollution, new Ficus, free dyes


And we’re back! Joram is taking care of yet another human and found the time to talk plant science. This week is just a bunch of cool science stories, next week we’ll be back with our regular structure. 

  • How to Fight the Ever-Increasing Air Pollution in Delhi? 
  • Indoor Air Quality Improvement by Simple Ventilated Practice and Sansevieria Trifasciata 
  • (PDF) Hiding in plain sight, Ficus desertorum (Moraceae), a new species of rock fig for Central Australia
  • Open Chemistry: What if we just give everything away?
  • A fossil record of land plant origins from charophyte algae
  • Epigenetically mismatched parental centromeres trigger genome elimination in hybrids
  • Breeding plants with genes from one parent: Advance could shorten times for crop breeding
  • Ancient Pine Cone Trapped in Amber Shows a Super-Rare Form of Plant ‘Parenting’
  • Viviparity in tomatoes
  • Scientists question Max Planck Society’s treatment of women leaders

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 December 3, 2021  1h25m