Plants and Pipettes
Joram Schwartzmann and Tegan Armarego-Marriott
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Where would you hide a fig? – air pollution, new Ficus, free dyes
Plants and Pipettes
12/03/21 • 85 min
And we’re back! Joram is taking care of yet another human and found the time to talk plant science. This week is just a bunch of cool science stories, next week we’ll be back with our regular structure.
- How to Fight the Ever-Increasing Air Pollution in Delhi?
- Indoor Air Quality Improvement by Simple Ventilated Practice and Sansevieria Trifasciata
- (PDF) Hiding in plain sight, Ficus desertorum (Moraceae), a new species of rock fig for Central Australia
- Open Chemistry: What if we just give everything away?
- A fossil record of land plant origins from charophyte algae
- Epigenetically mismatched parental centromeres trigger genome elimination in hybrids
- Breeding plants with genes from one parent: Advance could shorten times for crop breeding
- Ancient Pine Cone Trapped in Amber Shows a Super-Rare Form of Plant ‘Parenting’
- Viviparity in tomatoes
- Scientists question Max Planck Society’s treatment of women leaders
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
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Tomato Body Horror
Plants and Pipettes
05/01/20 • 57 min
We’re back. We were never really gone. We had just hurt our individual faces and now they’re in good enough shape to drag them in front of the microphones. This week, we talk about coffee, rat spines and glow-in-the-dark plants. Keep your faces intact and enjoy!
Paper of the weekBing Cheng, Heather E Smyth, Agnelo Furtado, Robert J Henry, Slower development of lower canopy beans produces better coffee, Journal of Experimental Botany, , eraa151
Fun StuffThe ABCD meeting framework:
All continents
Balanced Gender
Carbon transport
Diverse backgrounds
“nobody will have scary rat spine hands”
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
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No Touchy the Planty
Plants and Pipettes
02/22/19 • 115 min
It is done. We recorded our first episode of the Plants and Pipettes Podcast.
What happens if you repeatedly poke a plant in the eye leaf? And what is so exciting about transforming yet another organelle? Listen to this episode and find out!
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Shownotes:
- Tegan’s Paper: Quantitative and functional posttranslational modification proteomics reveals that TREPH1 plays a role in plant touch-delayed bolting, Wang et al., PNAS, 2018
- Joram’s Paper: High-efficiency generation of fertile transplastomic Arabidopsis plants, Ruf et al., Nature Plants, 2019
- The previous chloroplast transformation paper from 2017: Efficient Plastid Transformation in Arabidopsis, Yu et al, Plant Physiology, 2017
- DIY 3D printed hand powered centrifuge
- Ultralow-cost electroporator
- Gaurav Byagathvalli on twitter
- Dunning-Kruger on GMO opposition survey
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Our opening music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
A much larger duck, effectively a submarine
Plants and Pipettes
02/05/24 • 63 min
We recorded this gem a while back but because Joram we are only publishing it now. So if any of our jokes feel dated, it’s because of that. Clearly. We are always very topical and on point with our humour.
- Maddox Prize 2023 – Sense about Science
- Gotta grow fast! – Plants and Pipettes
- Distribution, drivers and restoration priorities of plant invasions in India
- Epidermal bladder cells as a herbivore defense mechanism
- Genetic basis of the historical iron‐accumulating dgl and brz mutants in pea – Harrington – The Plant Journal – Wiley Online Library
- Composition, formation mechanism, and removal method of off‐odor in soymilk products
- Mutations in the genes responsible for the synthesis of furan fatty acids resolve the light‐induced off‐odor in soybean oil – Watanabe – The Plant Journal – Wiley Online Library
- Back from the Dead: New Hope for Resurrecting Extinct Plants – Yale E360.
- Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria | Nature Plants
- Elements of Style in Floral Arrangements: How Discerning Are Consumers Toward Floristry Design Principles and How Much Are They Willing to Pay?
- New secrets about cat evolution revealed | ScienceDaily
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
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Is a grape just as sweet without the colour?
Plants and Pipettes
11/17/23 • 51 min
We have a packed episode for you with news from never-browning potatoes, mysterious sunflowers and also an answer to your constant question: How many cells are there?
- Argentinian scientists develop first Latin American genetically edited potato to prevent enzymatic browning
- EU legal proposal for genome-edited crops hints at a science-based approach
- You say genome editing, I say natural mutation | ScienceDaily
- Idiosyncratic and dose-dependent epistasis drives variation in tomato fruit size | Science
- Lateral gene transfer generates accessory genes that accumulate at different rates within a grass lineage – Raimondeau – New Phytologist
- flavour of grape colour: anthocyanin content tunes aroma precursor composition by altering the berry microenvironment | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
- How sunflowers see the sun | ScienceDaily
- Multiple light signaling pathways control solar tracking in sunflowers | PLOS Biology
- New and Antifungal Diterpenoids of Sunflower against Gray Mold | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
- New calculations say there are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky | Science
- The geologic history of primary productivity: Current Biology
- Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals | ScienceDaily
- An orthogonalized PYR1-based CID module with reprogrammable ligand-binding specificity | Nature Chemical Biology
- Rats have an imagination, new research suggests | ScienceDaily
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
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The end was a little bit sad, but I liked the beginning
Plants and Pipettes
08/17/23 • 51 min
Did you know? We didn’t either! We were just as surprised as you are right now and let’s indulge in this feeling together with this new spoken word content by your favourite content producers!
- Flowers pollinated by honeybees make lower-quality seeds
- Honeybees (Apis mellifera) decrease the fitness of plants they pollinate | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Multiplex CRISPR editing of wood for sustainable fiber production | Science
- Prediction of on-target and off-target activity of CRISPR–Cas13d guide RNAs using deep learning | Nature Biotechnology
- Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients | Nature Plants
- New Article: Masting [irregular, cyclic, synchronous, unusually large production of seeds] is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients” – Twitter
- The Rise and Decay of the Wood Wide Web
- Would you eat the diaper mushrooms? Reading Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
- Airborne environmental DNA captures terrestrial vertebrate diversity in nature – Lynggaard – Molecular Ecology Resources – Wiley Online Library
- A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change
- Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi: Current Biology
- Play and tickling responses map to the lateral columns of the rat periaqueductal gray: Neuron
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
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Catnip could be pollinated by cats
Plants and Pipettes
07/21/23 • 70 min
Hi. This is a new episode. It’s about plants, pipettes, panic and paranoia. Please enjoy.
- Dyeing with Safflower | Wild Colours natural dyes
- Air-quality networks collect environmental DNA with the potential to measure biodiversity at continental scales: Current Biology
- Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA | Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing
- A critical analysis of plant science literature reveals ongoing inequities | PNAS
- Research | Rosemarks
- A pathogen effector FOLD diversified in symbiotic fungi – Teulet – New Phytologist – Wiley Online Library
- The molecular clock in long-lived tropical trees is independent of growth rate
- Joram’s piece on FOSS and science
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
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I shot all my powder
Plants and Pipettes
06/20/23 • 55 min
We are talking pigweed. We are talking ATPase in diatoms. We are talking trees. What more do you want?!
- RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year / RHS Gardening
- Bird of the Year – Wikipedia
- The V-type ATPase enhances photosynthesis in marine phytoplankton and further links phagocytosis to symbiogenesis: Current Biology
- Early-Warning Signals of Individual Tree Mortality Based on Annual Radial Growth
- Pavement cells distinguish touch from letting go | Nature Plants
- Pigheaded pigweed- an amaranth that can’t be killed by Roundup – Plants and Pipettes
- Extrachromosomal circular DNA mediated spread of herbicide resistance in interspecific hybrids of pigweed
- Pigheaded pigweed- an amaranth that can’t be killed by Roundup – Plants and Pipettes
- Extrachromosomal circular DNA: A neglected nucleic acid molecule in plants – ScienceDirect
- Prescribed burning may produce refugia for invasive forb, Oncosiphon pilulifer – Schwab – Restoration Ecology – Wiley Online Library
- Light diffraction by sarcomeres produces iridescence in transmission in the transparent ghost catfish | PNAS
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
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Walk like an ant, look like a plant, be a spider
Plants and Pipettes
06/08/23 • 67 min
This week, it’s all about plants. What they do, why they do it and what to look out for when looking at plants. Marvellous!
- Carnivory on demand: phosphorus deficiency induces glandular leaves in the African liana Triphyophyllum peltatum – Winkelmann – New Phytologist – Wiley Online Library
- Nitrogen availability alters the expression of carnivory in the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea | PNAS
- Targeting of plasmodesmal proteins requires unconventional signals | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic
- Good vibrations: how listening to the sounds of soil helps us monitor and restore forest health
- Plant pan-genomes are the new reference
- Plant pan-genomics: recent advances, new challenges, and roads ahead – ScienceDirect
- phase-separated CO2-fixing pyrenoid proteome determined by TurboID in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic
- Imperfect ant mimicry contributes to local adaptation in a jumping spider: iScience
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Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
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Cat bartering market
Plants and Pipettes
06/03/22 • 58 min
Would you swap your cat for a praying mantis? What about a nice house plant? This week, we are asking the big questions. Also news from plant science, a new biggest plant has been found and more potent cannabis from Israel.
- Shiso – Wikipedia
- Beast — Aradhita Para
- Telescoping effect – Wikipedia
- Scientists discover ‘biggest plant on Earth’ off Western Australian coast | Environment | The Guardian
- Extensive polyploid clonality was a successful strategy for seagrass to expand into a newly submerged environment
- Water makes tree branches droop at night — ScienceDaily
- Boosting THC in cannabis plant using a virus – Green Prophet
- Changes in Cannabis Potency over the Last Two Decades (1995-2014) – Analysis of Current Data in the United States
- Touch signaling and thigmomorphogenesis are regulated by complementary CAMTA3- and JA-dependent pathways
- Molecular phylogenies map to biogeography better than morphological ones | Communications Biology
- Are people swapping their cats and goldfish for praying mantises? New research sheds light on the pet insect market and its implications on biodiversity conservation — ScienceDaily
All views are our own. If you want to comment or correct anything we said, leave a comment under this post or reach out to us via twitter, facebook or instagram.
Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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How many episodes does Plants and Pipettes have?
Plants and Pipettes currently has 176 episodes available.
What topics does Plants and Pipettes cover?
The podcast is about Natural Sciences, Podcasts, Education and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Plants and Pipettes?
The episode title 'Is a grape just as sweet without the colour?' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Plants and Pipettes?
The average episode length on Plants and Pipettes is 60 minutes.
How often are episodes of Plants and Pipettes released?
Episodes of Plants and Pipettes are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Plants and Pipettes?
The first episode of Plants and Pipettes was released on Feb 22, 2019.
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