
Walk like an ant, look like a plant, be a spider
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
Until next time!
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
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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Plants are big straws
Welcome to Ants and Pipettes, the podcast about ants and their relationship to plants and also there are pipettes. I don’t know. Have fun!
- Recovery after long-term summer drought: Hydraulic measurements reveal legacy effects in trunks of Picea abies but not in Fagus sylvatica
- Scientists engineer the first light-powered yeast | Science | AAAS
- Using light for energy: examining the evolution of phototrophic metabolism through synthetic construction | bioRxiv
- Natural Coumarin Isomers with Dramatically Different AIE Properties: Mechanism and Application
- Have your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is coming | 3D printing | The Guardian
- Impact of varying macronutrient composition on the printability of pea-based inks in extrusion-based 3D food printing
- Macroecological diversification of ants is linked to angiosperm evolution | Evolution Letters | Oxford Academic
- Ants took over the world by following flowering plants out of prehistoric forests — ScienceDaily
- Soejatmi Dransfield – Wikipedia.
- Negativity drives online news consumption | Nature Human Behaviour
- Marvellous moths! pollen deposition rate of bramble (Rubus futicosus L. agg.) is greater at night than day | PLOS ONE
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!
Next Episode

I shot all my powder
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
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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