Is a grape just as sweet without the colour?
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
All views are our own. If you want to comment or correct anything we said, reach out to us via mastodon, twitter, facebook or instagram.
Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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
All views are our own. If you want to comment or correct anything we said, reach out to us via mastodon, twitter, facebook or instagram.
Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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- 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
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- Airborne environmental DNA captures terrestrial vertebrate diversity in nature – Lynggaard – Molecular Ecology Resources – Wiley Online Library
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- 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
All views are our own. If you want to comment or correct anything we said, reach out to us via mastodon, twitter, facebook or instagram.
Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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All views are our own. If you want to comment or correct anything we said, reach out to us via mastodon, twitter, facebook or instagram.
Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross
Until next time!
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