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 114: (Stop) trying to make photoaerogens happen, it’s not going to happen


Have you heard of fynbos? This week, we discuss how the fynbos ecosystem withstands turning into a forest, what problems arise from academic bullying and why you’d pump nectar out of a flower. 

  • Fynbos plants hold their ground with the world’s thinnest roots | Science News 
  • Audouinia capitata (L.) Brongn.
  • Smokey the Gardener | Science News
  • Fynbos – Wikipedia
  • Biome boundary maintained by intense belowground resource competition in world’s thinnest-rooted plant community | PNAS
  • The tale of two international women in 20th century plant science | John Innes Centre 
  • Irma Andersson-Kottö – Wikipedia 
  • Anna Atkins | `ADIANTUM CUNEATUM (FROM THE CONSERVATORY AT CHATSWORTH)’ | MutualArt
  • The opinion piece about bullying in academics on twitter
  • Gender Paygap Bot on Twitter
  • The largest population of a rare, protected orchid found in a military base in Corsica — ScienceDaily 
  • Structural dynamics of real and modelled Solanum stamens: implications for pollen ejection by buzzing bees
  • Structural dynamics of real and modelled Solanum stamens: implications for pollen ejection by buzzing bees (on biorXiv)
  • Pollinators like their flowers with a dash of salt | Science | AAAS 
  • An extinct rat shows CRISPR’s limits for resurrecting species | Science News

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 March 11, 2022  1h19m