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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 7 days 8 hours 23 minutes
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episode 49: Help! Squirrels! – Black eyed peas, Georgiana Simpson, and the humor effect
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episode 48: Spinach and strawberries – artificial photosynthesis at the interphase of nature and technology
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episode 47: Don’t send Tom Cruise, send three to four Arabidopsis
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episode 46: Tomato Body Horror
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episode 45: The study of ducks
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Pockets on everything
This week, we're exploring a short but dense paper on the Arabidopsis proteome.
Pockets on everything
This week, we're exploring a short but dense paper on the Arabidopsis proteome.