Plants and Pipettes

Would you trust us if we spoke badly about cheese? This, and other science facts in our newest plant science show for you!

• WELCOME BACK! (our story about the great mistletoe)

• A seed‐like proteome in oil‐rich tubers – Niemeyer – The Plant Journal – Wiley Online Library
• Cyperus esculentus – Wikipedia
• Cyperus rotundus – Wikipedia
• Amborella – Wikipedia

• The colonisation of land was a likely driving force for the evolution of mitochondrial retrograde signalling in plants
• The GENOMES UNCOUPLED1 protein has an ancient, highly conserved role but not in retrograde signalling
• The forgotten organelle – Plants and Pipettes
• Self-pollinating plant shows rapid loss of genetic variation — ScienceDaily 
• Spatially patterned hydrogen peroxide orchestrates stomatal development in Arabidopsis | Nature Communications
• How death’s-head hawkmoths manage to fly straight in the dark | Science News