Plants and Pipettes

And we’re back from the winter/summer break/non-break. We are talking about a perfect tomato, smoke smelling trees and the science of listening to the environment.

• All-flesh fruit in tomato is controlled by reduced expression dosage of AFF through a structural variant mutation in the promoter | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
• Alterations in Structural Polysaccharides during Liquefaction of Tomato Locule Tissue | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic 
• Evidence of nutrient translocation in response to smoke exposure by the East African ant acacia, Vachellia drepanolobium – Rabideau‐Childers – – Ecology and Evolution – Wiley Online Library
• Oxygen and nitrogen production by an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon 
• The Algae Expert who helped Crack Code in WWII – Plants and Pipettes
•  Half of top cancer studies fail high-profile reproducibility effor
• November: Flowering plants evolution | News and features | University of Bristol
• The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity – Benton – – New Phytologist – Wiley Online Library
• Biophony
• New Caledonian crows keep ‘valuable’ hooked tools safer than basic non-hooked tools | eLife

We will be on a break for some time after this episode. We’re looking forward to talking to you about plant science again in the not-so-far future!

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