Archives: Episodes

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

Sometimes, technology makes our lives better. On other occasions, it makes it much harder. This week was one of those times, the recording equipment failed on us. We still did a fun show full of cool plant science, it just doesn’t sound as nice. Sorry!… Read more

We’re back from our holidays and we brought a big bag of plant facts from the last couple of weeks of plant science!… Read more

No big plant news this week, we are on holiday for a couple of weeks! Talk to you soon!… Read more

This week, we learn something new: have you heard about apomictic propagation? Well, now you have. We also bring the hottest news from the plant science world.… Read more

We have a lot of questions this week that even we don’t know the answer to. This is your time to shine… Read more

Hi! Would you like some cool plant facts? We have a fresh new paper about biofortified tomatoes that give you your daily dose of vitamin D, a new oldest tree and an explanation of why catnip likes to be a cat bed.

• Biofortified tomatoes provide a new route to vitamin D sufficiency | Nature Plants
• Epigenetic features drastically impact CRISPR-Cas9 efficacy in plants  
• New CRISPR-combo boosts genome editing power in plants — ScienceDaily
• ‘Hey, tree. You are my friend’: Assessing multiple values of nature through letters to trees
• Is this the oldest tree in the world?

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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.… Read more

This week, we’re talking about a cool gene regulatory mechanism that keeps ribosomes busy, the truth behind French lillies and which plants best not to pick.

• Jérémie Makiese – Miss You – Belgium 🇧🇪 – Official Music Video – Eurovision 2022
• Noise reduction by upstream open reading frames | Nature Plants
• Wu, HW., Fajiculay, E., Wu, JF. et al. Noise reduction by upstream open reading frames. Nat. Plants (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01136-8
• Upstream open reading frame – Wikipedia 
• Stop picking carnivorous penis plants, Cambodian environmental officials plead | Live Science 
• Fleur-de-lis – Wikipedia 
• Making New Climate Data from Old Timber | The New Yorker 
• A first: Scientists grow plants in soil from the Moon — ScienceDaily 
• Plant-inspired TransfOrigami microfluidics 
• The invaders destroyed the National Gene Bank of Plants of Ukraine | odessa-journal.com

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It’s travel season here at Plants and Pipettes and so we thought we’d share some travel facts from the plant world! How do plants travel? Is collecting trees cool? How does humidity propel seeds forward? We have the answers.

• Martha Stewart just flew private with eight trees—see the photo to prove it
• A tree crosses the sea: how the richest man in Georgia buys and transports the bushes of the poorest farms – Kiratas
• Taming the Garden (2021) – IMDb
• Legends of the coco de mer – Wikipedia
• Long Distance Seed Dispersal by Forest Elephants | Ecology and Evolution
• Small mammal personalities generate context dependence in the seed dispersal mutualism | PNAS 
• Watch a bunchberry dogwood plant in action | Science News
• Hook-and-loop fastener – Wikipedia
• Cabbage Patch: Fifth Crop Harvested Aboard Space Station | NASA
• Travel in city road networks follows similar transport trade-off principles to neural and plant arbors | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
• Moon tree – Wikipedia
• other sticky plants: Ultimate Hitchhiker
• The walk and jump of horsetail spores (Equisetum) 
• Fastest Plant on Earth | Science News for Students
• Oilbirds disperse large seeds at longer distance than extinct megafauna | Scientific Reports
• China’s Moon Plants Are Dead | Space 
• China grows plants on the moon!

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