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 111: Neptune (fountain architect)


This week, we’re talking about the link between the constructor of fountains, Neptune, and a small seagrass in the Mediterranean sea. Also more on X-ray microscopy and a discussion on who deserves to be on the author list (it’s Joram).

  • Terrestrial-type nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between seagrass and a marine bacterium 
  • Nitrogen uptake, assimilation and remobilization in plants: challenges for sustainable and productive agriculture 
  • Neptune’s famous fountain in Rome. 
  • X-ray microscopy enables multiscale high-resolution 3D imaging of plant cells, tissues, and organs  
    • Volume rendering of a barley inflorescence
    • ENHANCE 
  • Great display to promote new David Attenborough Show
  • Why flowers close at noon? A case study of an alpine species Gentianopsis paludosa (Gentianaceae) – Hou – 2022 – Ecology and Evolution – Wiley Online Library
  • Earth may have 9,200 more tree species than previously thought | Science News
  • Living Science: Authorship then and now | eLife
  • Popular press portrayal of issues surrounding free-roaming domestic cats Felis catus

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