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 117: COWpeaMILK – it’s full of plantibodies!


We finally found a way to market non-dairy milk as milk without upsetting any consumer or dairy company: cowpea milk. Plus: we discuss plantibodies, micronutrients and, weirdly enough, ocelot pee.

  • Black eyed peas could help eliminate need for fertilizer: Popular legume attracts beneficial nitrogen-fixing bacteria — ScienceDaily 
  • Genome Editing in Cowpea Vigna unguiculata Using CRISPR-Cas9
  • The genome of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.)  
  • Schoolgirls rumble Ribena vitamin claims | New Zealand | The Guardian 
  • Ribena – Wikipedia
  • Ribena maker fined $192,000
  • Assessing the magnitude of reporting bias in trials of homeopathy: a cross-sectional study and meta-analysis | BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
  • No Hormone to rule them all 
  • The plantibody approach: expression of antibody genes in plants to modulate plant metabolism or to obtain pathogen resistance 
  • Recyclable pollen-based paper developed by NTU Singapore scientists 
  • Scientists develop a recyclable pollen-based paper for repeated printing and ‘unprinting’ — ScienceDaily 
  • Fearful symmetry in aposematic plants
  • Weeds help mango trees, and possibly others, make more fruit – The Global Plant Council
  • Weeds Enhance Pollinator Diversity and Fruit Yield in Mango
  • Plants that could tackle vitamin B deficiencies | Kew
  • Global plant diversity as a reservoir of micronutrients for humanity
  • Link to the paper on Twitter
  • Just a 3D printed 3D mass spec plot (twitter)
  • Smelly ocelot habitats may scare off seed-dispersing rodents — ScienceDaily

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 April 9, 2022  1h0m