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Plants and PipettesA much larger duck, effectively a submarine 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 pro...2024-02-051h 03

Plants and PipettesCatnip could be pollinated by cats 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...2023-07-211h 10

Plants and PipettesPlants and Rats In this episode, Joram harnesses the powers of technology to prepare himself in a much worse way, arguably. So learn from Joram and reject technology (after you finished using technology to listen to this show, please)! One hundred important questions facing plant science: an international perspective First Peoples’ knowledge leads scientists to reveal ‘fairy circles’ and termite linyji are linked in Australia | Nature Ecology & Evolution Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative: Cell Pollination of Specklinia by nectar-feeding Drosophila: the first reported case of a deceptive syndrome employing aggregation pheromones in Orchidaceae | Annals of Botany | Oxford...2023-04-301h 02

Plants and PipettesDraw Joram a picture of smart orchards, please Yes, this is the plant podcast. No, we are not three people running it. Don’t listen to the bots. We know who we are. We think. Eponyms have no place in modern biology In the Name of Plants by Sandra Knapp | Waterstones Not just flowering time: a resurrection approach shows floral attraction traits are changing over time Genome-wide association study reveals WRKY42 as a novel plant transcription factor that influences oviposition preference of Pieris butterflies | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic ‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature Drug Delivery in Plants Using Silk Microneedles – Cao – 202...2023-03-211h 01

Plants and PipettesPlaying around with the ploidy level of plants We recorded in advance but then Joram edited late so overall it evens out to just be a day late in your feed. Not that you care, we know you live life like us, one moment at a time, not knowing what day of the week is today. At least we hope you do so we look less messy. Anyway – plants! The Tweet announcing that we are an award winning podcast Intercrops as foraging habitats for bees: Bees do not prefer sole legume crops over legume-cereal mixtures Massive effects on chromatin after ploidy rearrangement in doubled haploids | Journal of...2023-02-1847 min

Plants and PipettesDinosaurs in car parks Joram is sick again but it won’t stop us from talking about plants. This time, it’s more plant adjacent: we’re talking about a weird new way some bacteria do photosynthesis. Also lots of clever animals and a tale of paleobotanical experiments. 2.4-Å structure of the double-ring Gemmatimonas phototrophica photosystem A Mysterious Desert Bacterium Has Evolved Its Own, Unique Ability to Photosynthesizephotosynthetic bacteriaNew technology fused with photosynthetic life offers path to green energy — ScienceDailyElectrochemically Driven Photosynthetic Electron Transport in Cyanobacteria Lacking Photosystem II | Journal of the American Chemical SocietyBuilding artificial nerve cells: Organic electrochemical neurons and synapses w...2022-02-2654 min

Plants and PipettesGiggle Peas In this episode, Joram learns about wuthering heights and Tegan learns why chickpeas are believed to giggle in Germany. Also there is talk about red nectar, flammable litter and really old trees. Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights – Official Music Video – Version 2 Nesocodon mauritianus – Temperate House | Kew GardensRed nectar from a plant could be source of new dyeConvergent evolution of a blood-red nectar pigment in vertebrate-pollinated flowers | PNASArchana SharmaCytology of Amaryllids as an Aid to the Understanding of EvolutionFixity in Chromosome Number of PlantsArchana Sharma: An Indian Woman Botanist, a Cytogeneticist, Cell Biologist and a CytotoxicologistDr. Archana Sharm...2022-02-181h 11

Plants and PipettesNeptune (fountain architect) This week, we’re talking about the link between the constructor of fountains, Neptune, and a small seagrass in the Mediterranean sea. Also more on X-ray microscopy and a discussion on who deserves to be on the author list (it’s Joram). Terrestrial-type nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between seagrass and a marine bacterium Nitrogen uptake, assimilation and remobilization in plants: challenges for sustainable and productive agriculture Neptune’s famous fountain in Rome. X-ray microscopy enables multiscale high-resolution 3D imaging of plant cells, tissues, and organs Volume rendering of a barley inflorescenceENHANCE Great display to promote new David Attenborough ShowWhy flowers close at no...2022-02-1457 min

Plants and PipettesThe abominable mystery of Wolverine’s claws We all have goals this year. Joram’s goal is to befriend a crow, but only if Tegan doesn’t stab him with her fantastically hard claws first. Yes, this is a plant podcast, we promise. Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thalianaNew Evidence Challenges The Idea That Mutations Are Entirely Random A Newly Discovered Fossil Could Be The Answer to Darwin’s ‘Abominable’ MysteryTo New Beginnings: Riboproteogenomics Discovery of N-Terminal Proteoforms in Arabidopsis ThalianaHidden talents of mosses and lichens – The Global Plant CouncilTop 10 species new to science in 2021 | Kew14 Things You Need To Know About Wolverine’s Claws | Scree...2022-01-281h 06

Plants and PipettesWhere would you hide a fig? – air pollution, new Ficus, free dyes 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 AustraliaOpen Chemistry: What if we just give everything away?A fossil record of land plant origins from charophyte algaeEpigenetically mismatched parental centromeres trigger...2021-12-031h 25

Plants and PipettesThe last episode (before the break) This is our final episode – before we have to go on a break because Joram can’t stop procreating and will have to raise yet another newborn human. Enjoy this short fun episode about Marianne North, the Holmes effect and not one but two plant hormones that made the news. Marianne North Gallery | Kew Marianne North Marianne North defied Victorian convention to paint world’s flowersNepenthes northiana – Wikipedia They Still Live in the Shadow of Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes Plants evolved complexity in two bursts — with a 250-million-year hiatus Tomato In Japan Is First CRISPR-Edited Food In The World To Go On Sal...2021-10-1056 min

Plants and PipettesDNA spikey, enzyme no likey – monitoring H2O2 live, seed inspiration, cheatgrass Some people say, Joram is too close to still being sick in this episode. Those people are wrong. Joram is just a pretentious stuck up golfer who will never speak again with air freely travelling through his nose. So there’s that. Also, we have plant science for (for real!) and other… stuff. Like a stuffy nose. Bless you. Justus Niemeyer, David Scheuring, Julian Oestreicher, Bruce Morgan, Michael Schroda, Real-time monitoring of subcellular H2O2 distribution in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, The Plant Cell, Volume 33, Issue 9, September 2021, Pages 2935–2949Seeds inspire miniature sensors that float through the airLanguage extinction triggers the loss o...2021-10-011h 00

The Jethro Podcast.Be ThankfullAs you listen in, take emphasis on the point that a small act of being thankful verbally to yourself will go a long way to making you more content in life and resulting into an overall general happiness in your life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-07-0914 min

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The Jethro Podcast.How to deal with disappointment.In todays chat, I talk about a personal encounter with disappointment and what I learnt from that event in regards to dealing with those emotions. Enjoy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-06-1323 min

The Jethro Podcast.SpontaneityIs being spontaneous a good or bad thing. In this episode, I sit down with my favorite person as we discuss spontaneity and how it may affect you as an individual. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-05-2744 min

Plants and PipettesDung is the correct place to be – reflective moss, Mark Spencer, beautiful plants This week, we’re going cave diving. Not too deep though, we still need a little bit of light to find a moss. We also talk plant forensics and about the cooles news in plant science. What does 'cheugy' mean? And more importantly, are you a cheug? Schistostega pennata, also called goblin gold, Dragon's gold, luminous moss or luminescent moss Picture on twitter Mark Spencer (on twitter) BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific on Mark Spencer Scientists keep ignoring ugly plants. That’s a big problem Plant scientists’ research attention is skewed towards colourful, conspicuous and broadly distributed flowers Herbivore dung stoichiometry drives competition between savanna trees and grasses Just 20 Companies Produce Over 55% of All Single-Use Plastic Waste in The World Flows (Interactive Flow Chart for Single Use plastic production) An illuminating possibility for stroke treatment: Nano-photosynthesis 100 important questions for plant This week, we’re going cave diving. Not too deep though, we still need a little bit of light to find a moss. We also talk plant forensics and about the cooles news in plant science. What does ‘cheugy’ mean? And more importantly, are you a cheug?Schistostega pennata, also called goblin gold, Dragon’s gold, luminous moss or luminescent mossPicture on twitter Mark Spencer (on twitter) BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific on Mark Spencer Scientists keep ignoring ugly plants. That’s a big problem Plant scientists’ research attention is skewed towards colourful, conspicuous and broadly distributed flowers Herbivore dung stoic...2021-05-211h 26

Plants and PipettesAt the carp waterpark – biosensors, tracking carp, pseudopollen Oh Carp! Is it a new week already? We have another episode for you, this time talking about priming in maize, biosensors and carp science! Do you know whether carp can hear music? Tell us. We need to know. Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°CSaif ul Malook, Yuxing Xu, Jinfeng Qi, Jing Li, Lei Wang, Jianqiang Wu, Mythimna separata herbivory primes maize resistance in systemic leaves, Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 72, Issue 10, 4 May 2021, Pages 3792–3805Tracking temperate fish reveals their relevance for plant seed dispersalJoram learned about breast cancer biosensors and solar panels from food wasteA bio...2021-05-141h 30

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The Jethro Podcast.I have been fighting with this.Listen. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-05-0311 min

Plants and PipettesCAPE FASHION – hipster coffee, Beronda Montgomery, SciComm for PlantSci Your favourite tools are back to talk about some great science tools: a 28-page guide book for SciComm, DIY microscopes and the best AI-crafted pickup lines this side of the Mississippi. Also some actual plant science. The effects of climate change on Australia’s only endemic Pokémon: Measuring bias in species distribution modelsJoram’s favourite plant is Coffea stenophylla Arabica-like flavour in a heat-tolerant wild coffee speciesFollow up on this: Missing: Have you seen this Coffee? – Plants and Pipettes Beronda MontgomeryMy most memorable mentors? PlantsJonathan Van Ness on Instagram: “Lessons from Plants is out this week by our fav @be...2021-04-231h 27

Antenne InternetThermocastDas universelle Küchengerät unter den Podcasts ist zurück. Wie ein Baby auf einer Waage mit Häkselmessern schmeißen wir uns in die Themen der Woche. Was kann eine grüne Kanzlerin für die Pandemie? Wen haben wir verloren, weil wir keine Luftschildchen hatten? Fragen über Fragen und nur wenige Antworten in der neuen Folge Gleich und Mäßig.2021-04-212h 18

The Jethro Podcast.THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F**KOur minds are constantly being bombarded with information both negative and positive. But as you might discover, it's the negativity that catches our attention most of the time. A good morning can be forgotten when he/she doesn't text you back. Or Your day can be ruined by a stranger or family member saying something negative about you. This is our world and I have some pointers to pass along about this issue. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-04-1216 min

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Plants and PipettesBuilding molecular Legos – ATP synthase research with Etienne Meyer This week, we’re welcoming our close friend Etienne Meyer to the show. Together with Joram, he just published a new paper on ATP synthase research and we take the chance to talk about it. Complexome profiling reveals novel insights into the composition and assembly of the mitochondrial ATP synthase of Arabidopsis thaliana, Helene Röhricht, Joram Schwartzman, Etienne H. Meyer, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Bioenergetics, 2021Here is a link for free access until the 25th of May 2021Rotary motion of the motor that produces ATP in mitochondriaATP Synthase Mechanism Only click this link if you’re fine...2021-04-021h 11

The Jethro Podcast.Planning can be FUN.We often fail to achieve our dreams because we do not plan well and effectively do not take action. This is because many of us find the planning process boring leading us to the side of procrastination. I found that making the planning process fun provides for a higher chance of me acting towards my goals. So in this episode I share my findings on how to make planning fun with you. ENJOY!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-03-1811 min

Plants and PipettesLet the Whale Fall – headless sea slugs, pollen season, clever cuttlefish This week, Tegan found the truth about a song from 2012. We also discuss lots of plant and non-plant science from the last week or so. Did you know that cuttlefish are as smart as a toddler? Whale fall – WikipediaAdele – Skyfall Lyrics Joram’s work stuff: WissenstransferThis sea slug cut off its own head—and lived to tell the tale A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children‘Giant luminous shark’: researchers discover three deep-sea sharks glow in the darkTree love You’re Not Imagining It. Climate Change Is Making Allergy Seasons Start Earlier Kyriarchy Watch a Super-Elusive Moo...2021-03-121h 16

The Jethro Podcast.3 FUN ways to stop procrastinatingIn this episode, I give you the three fun things that I do to get me out of the trap of procrastination. Enjoy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-03-0112 min

The Jethro Podcast.L.O.V.E is a beautiful thing.As it is still the month of love, I thought I should talk about this interesting topic called love. In this episode, I talk about the stages of love we all go through from the time we are born up until our final moments. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-02-2311 min

Plants and PipettesPositive Adjectives! – Tomato transpiration, wild cotton, super-plants? Welcome to another week of doomsday escapism. We bring you a cool story about transpiring tomatoes, wonder about wild cotton and are suspicious about road-side super-plants. And we ask: What is your favourite idiom that translates poorly into English? Transpiration from Tomato Fruit Occurs Primarily via Trichome-Associated Transcuticular Polar Pores, Eric A. Fich, Josef Fisher, Dani Zamir, Jocelyn K.C. Rose, Plant Physiology Dec 2020, 184 (4) 1840-1852; DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.01105 Links Milestones in Genomic SequencingA wealth of discovery built on the Human Genome Project — by the numbersModified genes can distort wild cotton’s interactions with insects; Study in Sc...2021-02-191h 30

The Jethro Podcast.The great war with confidence.Everyone has fought with low confidence and self esteem before. In this episode I talk about a prior experience of low confidence and I break down the lessons I learnt from it. Enjoy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-02-1821 min

The Jethro Podcast.The art of repetition.In this episode, I talk about the importance of repetition in our daily lives and how it can help you become an expert on something. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-02-1512 min

Plants and PipettesJoram and the curse of knowledge – gum arabic, homework, artistic AI It snowed! Well, not that you can see any of that, but we’re excited nonetheless. We’re also excited about this week’s topics: we’re talking about fabulous Acacias in Central Africa, the road towards more accessible science and a lot of homework that other people did for us. Acacia senegal or Senegalia senegal, (& Vachellia (Acacia) seyal) The ancient trade holding back the Sahara DesertWhen we talked about gum like substances: Don’t send Tom Cruise, send three to four ArabidopsisThe Acacia (re)naming debate: Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia...2021-02-121h 22

The Jethro Podcast.The importance of resting your body.These days it's all work work and people don't create time for getting adequate sleep. So in this episode, I give you the reasons based on my past experiences, why you should create time for adequate sleep. I had a lot of fun making this one. ENJOY!!!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-02-1118 min

The Jethro Podcast.The impact of meditation on my life.In this episode, I talk about my journey with meditation and how it has helped me cope with the difficult situations in my life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-02-1015 min

The Jethro Podcast.Letting go of your past "MISTAKES"Do you believe in second chances. Well they are always there for those who ask for them. Take a listen on how I was able to move past my prior mistakes and become a better person. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-02-0908 min

The Jethro Podcast.The troubles of anxiety and depression.In this episode, we talk about the troubles of anxiety and depression and how to combat them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-02-0520 min

The Jethro Podcast.The reasons for you to start exercising.In this episode I talk about the good things that come from exercising. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-02-0209 min

The Jethro Podcast.The effects of the pandemic on mental health.In my very first episode, I talk about the pandemic and how it has affected me mentally as a university student. I go on to highlight the various ways I have been able to cope with all the negative thoughts in my head. Enjoy!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joram-jethro/message 2021-02-0108 min

Plants and PipettesThe ducks are anxious – the order of Cycads, Matilda Gage, Red Hot Chili Solar Panels In this episode, Joram presents not only a plant but an entire order of plants, mostly because he has no idea how plant nomenclature works. Tegan presents the life and work of two important women, Matilda Gage and Margaret Rossiter. Aren’t we two little overachievers? Joram’s favourite plant: the order of Cycadsstudy 1 found that male cycads branch more often than female cycads, which makes sex determination in the field more reliablestudy 2 found that anti-transpirants make no difference in the propagation of cycads by stem cuttingsMatilda Joslyn Gage Margaret W. RossiterMatilda effectMatthew effectStudy finds future too warm for ba...2021-01-151h 21

Plants and PipettesDon’t call it Moth-Paté – seagrass biofilms, fatty moths, fatty plants We’re back! After an extended winter break we return with a cool new paper and lots and lots of science fun facts somewhat related to plants! Elgetti Brodersen, K., Kühl, M., Trampe, E. and Koren, K. (2020), Imaging O2 dynamics and microenvironments in the seagrass leaf phyllosphere with magnetic optical sensor nanoparticles. Plant J., 104: 1504-1519. Giant Crested NewtsJoram’s talk at rC3, SourcesKnowledge about the nature of science increases public acceptance of science regardless of identity factorsMistletoe paper and our podcast episodeClimate CzarThese spiders may sew leaves into fake shelters to lure frogs to their doom 2...2021-01-081h 25

50 Things That Define ZambiaFREEDOM STATUEZambia's most recognized statue--the Freedom Statue isn't just a mere piece of art. It's modeled on a real person, who could be considered an overshadowed freedom fighter. In this episode, Joram casts the spotlight on this forgotten freedom fighter.2020-12-2806 min

Plants and PipettesTapeworms have the life we all want – A christmas episode Deck the halls and snatch the gravy, it’s a Christmas episode of your favourite plant podcast that is hosted by Tegan and Joram! In this year’s final episode, we’re bringing you one last time in 2020 all the facts and bits of information you never knew you needed. Moth Cyborgs? Check. Zombees? Check. Way too much talking about Christmas music? CHECK. Please enjoy this episode, and have a wonderful winter break. Stay safe, stay healthy, stay happy, everyone! Peroxisomes are the next big plant organelle, we told you soPlants and Pipettes on Peroxisomes Where’s wallaby? Using pub...2020-12-191h 22

Plants and PipettesThe one where Joram did his homework – rediscovering extinct plants, Luciana Leite and Luisa M. Diele-Viegas, Platypodes under UV light Joram came so well prepared, it made Tegan angry. The two work through their disagreements though in another episode filled to the brim with tales from the (plant) science world. Joram’s favourite plant is Franciscan manzanita (Arctostaphylos franciscana), based on a really great article on plants believed to be extinctTegan presents Luciana Leite and Luisa M. Diele-Viegas. Too intelligent for the life sciences in BrazilCV of Luciana Leite and her google scholar pageWebsite of Luisa M. Diele-ViegasArticle by Luisa M. Diele-Viegas on supporting transgender scientists post Covid Joram presents the False Consensus Bias Joram’s Firewatch playthrough photosTh...2020-11-061h 22

Plants and PipettesSocial Distancing Bats – Venus Fly Traps, Pandas, Chinas Carbon Capture While Joram is running at 1% brain battery, Tegan makes up for the lack of a decent podcast partner by bringing a really cool paper: researchers found a 30 second timer within venus fly traps. Plus more sutff! Paper of the week: Suda, H., Mano, H., Toyota, M. et al. Calcium dynamics during trap closure visualized in transgenic Venus flytrap. Nat. Plants 6, 1219–1224 (2020). Article about the paper in sciencenews (with video)Article on transformed Mimosa pudica by the same author More about touch in plants on Plants and PipettesTouch-a, Touch-a, Touch meHung...2020-10-301h 00

Plants and PipettesNature really wants to make crabs – Gympie gympie, Pamela Ronald, Pink Pineapple In this episode, Joram gets really upset. Tegan offers her services as an apocalyptic seamstress. And somewhere, a pallas cat is looking regal. Links How to ask for pronounsGympie gympie, aka Dendrocnide moroides; new studyPamela Ronald was just awarded the World Agricultural Prize 2020 and is the first woman in the history of the prize (which exists for over 20 years). Interview with PamelaBen Franklin effectPink pineapples, FDA approval, official website Rubisco Activase pushes and pulls on the enzyme to release the inhibitory sugarWeird prion senses temperature: article, news & viewsNature really wants to make crabs, explanatory articleWheel of Po...2020-10-231h 07

Plants and PipettesBonnie Tyler AI – Wormwood, Single names, Smart Birds Joram is tired, Tegan has been singing – a perfect storm for some (plant) science! We discuss the story of Artemisia absinthium, talk about the woes of single-named scientists and bring you the hottest science facts from the last seven days. Links: Tegan’s favourite song of the day Beastie Boys – Fight for your right (revisited)Joram’s favourite plant is Artemisia absinthiumTegan talks about the struggles met by scientists with non-Western namesNature articleShera’s blogArdiantiono on researchgateGive South Indian Authors their true name (Nature article)Names dropped to avoid prejudice (Nature article)Scientific publishing: Identity crisis (Nature article...2020-10-021h 11

Plants and PipettesT-rexes have really good reflexes – microviscosity, science tattoos, wild pollinators Welcome to this struggle-episode! We had bad connection problems which meant that we spent most of our time blaming each other for having terrible internet. In between the blame game, we talked about a molecular sensor for microviscosity, nerd tattoos and why Joram won’t get any of them. Paper of the week Complete microviscosity maps of living plant cells and tissues with a toolbox of targeting mechanoprobes, Lucile Michels, Vera Gorelova, Yosapol Harnvanichvech, Jan Willem Borst, Bauke Albada, Dolf Weijers, Joris Sprakel Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jul 2020, 117 (30) 18110-18118; DOI:10.1073/pna...2020-09-0400 min

Plants and PipettesSucculent chicken – Phytomining, Cyanotype, Boosted Tobacco After an uneventful week, our two main protagonists meet yet again to discuss the ups and downs of current plant research. Tag along as our heroes discuss the true meaning of succulent, how to mine Nickel and why blue plant outlines are so hot right now*. *in the 19th century Joram’s favourite plant is: Alyssum murale – A Ni hyperaccumulator Tegan presents the life and work of Anna Atkins 1799 – 1871, one of the first women to take photographs ever, the first woman to use photograms as an illustration tool to document plants. Source 1, Source 2 The...2020-08-281h 12

Plants and PipettesMola mola babies – extremophile algae, intersectional feminism in academia, talking to conspiracy theorists Some weeks we talk a lot about plant science, some weeks we explore a lot of plant-science-adjacent topics. You be the judge of what happened this week. Tegan’s favourite plant is Chlorella ohadii which is extremely resistant to excess light. New paper, old paper and news article. Joram presents the work of Maria N. Miriti. Hidden figures in ecology and evolution, Nature correspodenceIntersectional feminism, UN womenRelated: Too many senior white academics still resist recognizing racism, by Namandjé Bumpus Bias: Zeigarnik effect; (related) Ovsiankina effect 10 tips when talking to people about conspiracy theo...2020-07-311h 27

Plants and PipettesPenguins propelling poo – self-drilling seeds, arctic explorers, and some plant science You know the drill: we talk about our favourite plant (it’s drilling itself into the ground), a cool researcher (she travelled to Antarctica to study lichen), a cognitive bias (the end will please you) and fun stuff (a lot of it). Please enjoy. Joram’s favourite plant is Erodium cicutarium, closely related to Geranium. Video of the action Tegan presents the life and work of Elke Mackenzie, a British explorer and botanist. Joram presents the Peak-End rule Zucchini photo from Tegan Bleak financial outlook for PhD students in AustraliaMothers in academia face ex...2020-07-171h 18

Plants and PipettesDon't be a hypocrite, be a hypogriff This week, we’re talking about Tegan’s favourite plant, Elizabeth Mrema, the end-of-history illusion and many fun things from the world of science! Check out Angela Saini, she gives great talks! Tegan’s favourite plant is Prasinoderma coloniale. The plant’s genome lead to the description of a new phylum. Joram presents the work of Elizabeth Mrema. Here is the interview on protecting biodiversity. Bias: End-of-history illusion According to a preprint published on arxiv, papers downloaded from sci-hub get 1.72 times more cited than papers not downloaded from sci-hub Fun...2020-07-031h 20

Plants and PipettesHelp! Squirrels! – Black eyed peas, Georgiana Simpson, and the humor effect This week, we’re talking about cowpeas and how they grow in arid regions, the contribution of Georgiana Simpson to Black Rights in the US, and the effect of humor on information retention. Plus so much more! Joram’s favourite plant is Cowpea Vigna unguiculata, also called black eyed pea Tegan presents the life and work of Georgiana Simpson. Joram presents the humor effect Tegan has a great PhD project idea: Looking for life in weird places. There are microbes that divide only every hundred years and feed isotopes Plant...2020-05-221h 18

Plants and PipettesSpinach and strawberries – artificial photosynthesis at the interphase of nature and technology This week, we’re diving into a science paper that was hard to miss. It’s all about creating artificial photosynthesis using spinach chloroplasts. We also talk about our favourite genome duplication events and news in the world of science. Paper of the week: Miller, T. E., Beneyton, T., Schwander, T., Diehl, C., Girault, M., McLean, R., … Erb, T. J. (2020). Light-powered CO 2 fixation in a chloroplast mimic with natural and synthetic parts. Science, 368(6491), 649–654. Also check out this article about the paper @CatharticOutlet asked us what our favourite genome duplication event is. Joram’s is strawber...2020-05-151h 07

Plants and PipettesDon’t send Tom Cruise, send three to four Arabidopsis It’s time for all our segments! We talk weird chewing gum, South African botanists, biases and answer your questions. Do trees still breathe when they lose their foliage? Tegan’s favourite plant is Pistacia lentiscus because it’s used to make Mastic, a type of chewing gum. Also check out how chewing gum is made. Joram presents the life and work of Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus (1877-1970). Also check out the paper on the contribution of women to naming species. Tegan talks about how we only care about victims that we can identify...2020-05-081h 13

Plants and PipettesThe study of ducks Grab your top hat and ball gown, it is time to get fancy! This week, we dress up and talk about favourite plants, great scientists and all sorts of things that moved us in the last week. Joram’s favourite plant are all plants in the genus Schlumbergera Tegan presents the life and work of Maria Sibylla Merian. Don’t forget to check out Fieldwork in fancy dresses! Joram is under the illusion of control Quarantine machine Researchers figured out the Nicotiana benthamiana genome Corona Zombies So...2020-04-171h 13

Plants and PipettesTo bidet In times of need here we are to deliver another vital ration of exciting plant facts, bread talk and cat news. No paper this week, instead we’re talking about ostriches, shrubs and palm research. Tegan’s favourite plant is Forsythia, a yellow shrub that doesn’t contain lactose. Joram presents the life and work of Natalie Uhl. Ostriches don’t stick their head in the sand and this bias might or might not be true. This guy used ancient yeast to bake Egyptian bread. He also went out to collect wild yea...2020-04-0357 min

Plants and PipettesFlatten the curve! We’re trying something new in these trying times. Every other week we’ll have a deep dive into a new paper and on off-weeks, like this one, we’ll talk about some of our other segments. So practice social distance and enjoy our new episode! Joram’s favourite plant is Pando, the largest organism in the world. It’s made from the poplar relative Populus tremuloides, which creates clonal colonies through their root systems. Check out Ethel Sargant. Here is the article about her work. The normalcy bias makes everything more complicated right now...2020-03-201h 09

Plants and PipettesChinese Duck Army I hope you’re doing well and the ever-present Corona virus hasn’t reached you or your loved ones. While conferences and such are cancelled, we remain unaffected as we both dwell in our homes with little to no contact to the outside world, only connected by a remote podcasting session. Hybrid Cyanobacterial-Tobacco Rubisco Supports Autotrophic Growth and Procarboxysomal Aggregation, Douglas J. Orr, Dawn Worrall, Myat T. Lin, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Maureen R. Hanson, Martin A.J. Parry, Plant Physiology Feb 2020, 182 (2) 807-818; DOI: 10.1104/pp.19.01193 Joram’s favourite plant is Silene stenophylla, a plant that was resurrected from t...2020-03-061h 12

Plants and PipettesGet the hell off my carpet! We’re finally back together – even though it’s just for one night. We celebrate by recording a podcast for you and we talk about sex changing trees, the tiniest plants and lots of fun stuff. Paper of the week: Blake‐Mahmud, J. and Struwe, L.. 2020. When the going gets tough, the tough turn female: injury and sex expression in a sex‐changing tree. American Journal of Botany 107( 2): 339– 349. Tegan’s favourite plant is Wolffia. Make sure to check out the Charms of Duckweed! Joram presents the life and work of Wanda Zablocka. DeepL is your friend on this sourc...2020-02-281h 11

Plants and PipettesPlant protein is the best Would you eat crickets? Joram says no, Tegan, however, is already munching away any insect that crosses her path. Maybe it’s best to stick to plant protein, after all. Embryonic photosynthesis primes plant growth, Ayala Sela, Urszula Piskurewicz, Christian Megies, Laurent Mene-Saffrane, Giovanni Finazzi, Luis Lopez-Molina Plant Physiology Feb 2020, pp.00043.2020; DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.00043 Joram’s favourite plant is Espostoa frutescens as it absorbs ultrasound from bats to make its flowers stand out. Tegan presents a great essay by Brandon Taylor that you absolutely should check out. Don’t draw circles around...2020-02-211h 15

Plants and PipettesDemoralized by pandas Have you ever done an experiment for longer than 2 years? How about 12 years? Today, we’re talking about an extermely longterm experiment that might shed light on the origin of eukaryotes. Plus: a ton more… This week we had two special days, first up was #WomenInSTEM day on Tuesday, which brought us this beautiful tweet, followed by Darwin Day. Did you know that Darwin was an eager botanist? Now you know. This week’s paper is Imachi, H., Nobu, M.K., Nakahara, N. et al. Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface. Nature 577, 519–525 (2020). Tega...2020-02-141h 14

Plants and PipettesTangent on a tangent on a tangent This is a long episode because we have so much to tell you. Luckily for you, technology has your back. This episode is best consumed through the use of chapter marks, smart playback and 2x playback speed. Unless you really like us, then there is so much more for you to enjoy. Paper of the week: Xiang, Y., Huang, S., Huang, T.-Y., Dong, A., Cao, D., Li, H., … Duan, H. (2020). Superrepellency of underwater hierarchical structures on Salvinia leaf. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201900015. Joram’s favourite plant is the snowdrop. Here is the w...2020-02-071h 36

Plants and PipettesFLUORESCENT PINK SLUGS What are you doing with your life? Are you having a good time? You’re about to because this here is another episode of the best podcast about plants and pipettes you’ll hear all day. This, is plants and pipettes – the podcast. Try this non-privileged ice breaker: What is the most boring fact about yourself? The paper of the week is: Flood, P.J., Theeuwen, T.P.J.M., Schneeberger, K. et al. Reciprocal cybrids reveal how organellar genomes affect plant phenotypes.Nat. Plants6, 13–21 (2020). I am happy to say that our paper on reciproc...2020-01-3101 min

Plants and PipettesTegan is a rubber tree Have you heard about division planes in growing leaves? Well, you should have, because we literally talked about this yesterday on the blog. If you’re not doing your homework, I don’t see why we should put in an effort to educate you. Just kidding, we repeat everything that was written yesterday (and more!) Paper of the week is also yesterday’s blog post: Whitewoods, C. D., Gonçalves, B., Cheng, J., Cui, M., Kennaway, R., Lee, K., … Coen, E. (2020). Evolution of carnivorous traps from planar leaves through simple shifts in gene expression. Science, 367(6473), 91–96. Joram’s favour...2020-01-2413 min

Plants and PipettesWe're good with technology This week’s episode includes a jump back in time. Crazy, how nature do that. It’s totally not linked to a big mess-up by both of us. No. Really. We are good with this stuff. For real. Check out our summary post of 2019. It has lots of links to lots of great stories. We’re really happy about the new paper in Nature Food, where Ratan Chopra’s work (and of his co-workers) on pennycress was just published. We talke about it on the blog here and had an interview with Ratan here. Paper...2020-01-171h 22

Plants and PipettesCretaceous Park RAWR XD! This week, we’re all about dinosaurs and old geological time periods. Did you know that both the iconic T-Rex and the velociraptor are dinosaurs from the cretaceous period and not from the jurassic period? Paper of the week: Pollination of Cretaceous flowers, Tong Bao, Bo Wang, Jianguo Li, David Dilcher, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2019, 116 (49) 24707-24711; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1916186116 Joram’s favourite plant is Holly. Find out more about it on the advent calendar! Tegan presents the life and work of Inna A. Dobruskina. You can read more about her here a...2019-12-201h 12

Plants and PipettesWELCOME BACK! Rejoice for we returned. Properly. Full episode. Fun facts. 2 cat facts. Christmas came early. We present two papers this week on the same topic: Tegan’s paper: Maclean, A. E., Hertle, A. P., Ligas, J., Bock, R., Balk, J., & Meyer, E. H. (2018). Absence of Complex I Is Associated with Diminished Respiratory Chain Function in European Mistletoe. Current Biology, 28(10), 1614-1619.e3. Joram’s paper: Senkler, J., Rugen, N., Eubel, H., Hegermann, J., & Braun, H.-P. (2018). Absence of Complex I Implicates Rearrangement of the Respiratory Chain in European Mistletoe. Current Biology, 28(10), 1606-1613.e4. Tegan’s...2019-12-131h 36

Plants and PipettesPretty Poinsettias, and the Caterpillars that spray them with acid (intermission) We’re still on a podcast break. Good news is that Tegan arrived well in her new home. Bad news is that Joram got himself a weird virus that will knock him out in 10, 9, 8, 7, … This intermission presents the article we published as our advent calendar on day 3. If you want to read more about Poinsettia, we also have this other article for you. Follow us on twitter, instagram and facebook! If you like our podcast, review us on iTunes! Our opening and closing music is Caravana by Phillip Gross Until next time! S...2019-12-0604 min

Plants and PipettesPigheaded Pigweed (Intermission) Good news! Tegan successfully relocated herself and everything she holds dear to a new country. Bad news is, however, that the move still took too much time for us to properly record a real episode. You’ll have to make do with this little intermission, where Joram reads you a story we published in April this year. It’s about a superweed! Don’t worry, we will be back with our regular episodes in a few weeks. Until then, check out the blog for weekly stories from the world of plant research. Follow us on twitter...2019-11-2907 min

Plants and PipettesThere is no such thing as 'the' arabidopsis genome (intermission) We’re continuing our break from proper episodes for a little longer. To quench your thirst for plant science, we have another short story from the blog here on the podcast. This time, Tegan wrote about Arabidopsis ecotypes and Joram reads it to you. Don’t worry, we will be back with our regular episodes in a few weeks. Until then, check out the blog for weekly stories from the world of plant research. Follow us on twitter, instagram and facebook! If you like our podcast, review us on iTunes! Our opening an...2019-11-2206 min

Plants and PipettesCats and Naked Ladies This week, we have bad news. No new episode from your favourite hosts of the Plants and Pipettes Podcast. Tegan went missing in a mountain of moving boxes several days ago, and Joram has a pacifier permanently attached to his face. So instead, we have this little filler for you. The post we present is “Cats and Naked Ladies” from earlier this year. Don’t worry, we will be back with our regular episodes in a few weeks. Until then, check out the blog for weekly stories from the world of plant research. Follow...2019-11-1506 min

Plants and PipettesPhlehem Spooky time is over – now it’s all about regular boring plants again. Boring? Not on this podcast! It’s pretty much the most amazing plant podcast on this website. Joram’s paper: Liu, L., Li, C., Teo, Z. W. N., Zhang, B., & Yu, H. (2019). The MCTP-SNARE Complex Regulates Florigen Transport in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell, 31(10), 2475–2490. Tegan’s favourite plant is Taxus brevifolia, the pacific yew. Joram presents the life and work of Shipra Guha-Mukherjee, an Indian botanist working on on plant tissue culture, plant molecular biology, biotechnology and cell molecular biology. Here is the link to...2019-11-081h 18

Plants and PipettesMurder of Crows Podcast This is the spoooooookiest episode of our podcast! We have scary stories, spooky facts and gruesome details about plants and pipettes. We recorded in full costume and would like to see your plant related costumes! Send them to us! Tegan’s paper: Vaidya, A. S., Helander, J. D. M., Peterson, F. C., Elzinga, D., Dejonghe, W., Kaundal, A., … Cutler, S. R. (2019). Dynamic control of plant water use using designed ABA receptor agonists. Science, 366(6464), eaaw8848. (on researchgate) Joram’s favourite plant is the spooooooky ghost pipe – it’s part of our scariest plants list. Tegan presen...2019-11-011h 09

Plants and PipettesYou know nothing, RuBisCO. Sometimes, it’s ok to do a short episode. After all, there is plenty to listen to again on here, so yeah. We talk about RuBisCO research and plants and stuff. It really is like the ones before but different and with other topics. Joram’s paper: Lobo, A. K. M., Orr, D. J., Gutierrez, M. O., Andralojc, P. J., Sparks, C., Parry, M. A. J., & Carmo-Silva, E. (2019). Overexpression of ca1pase Decreases Rubisco Abundance and Grain Yield in Wheat. Plant Physiology, 181(2), 471–479. Tegan’s favourite plant is the golden wattle, not just a wattle. This is the Bru...2019-10-251h 03

Plants and PipettesWe hate bigotry but we love leaves It’s autumn! We just came back from a trip to Berlin’s botanical garden and record for the first time ever remotely – so forgive us for any technical hiccups. This week, we got a bit lost in a long discussion about the usefulness of committees as safeguards concerning ethical questions and we promise that we’re usually not that angry. Tegan’s paper: Dong, Y., Chen, S., Cheng, S., Zhou, W., Ma, Q., Chen, Z., … Xiang, Q.-Y. (2019). Natural selection and repeated patterns of molecular evolution following allopatric divergence. ELife, 8. Joram’s favourite plant is the water hya...2019-10-181h 30

Plants and PipettesFree Access to Bonnie Tyler We talk quite a bit about airports in the beginning but actually this episode is about CRISPR (yay!), favourite plants (yaaaaaayyy!) and fun stuff (yyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!). It’s a good episode. Joram’s paper: Decaestecker, W., Andrade Buono, R., Pfeiffer, M., Vangheluwe, N., Jourquin, J., Karimi, M., … Jacobs, T. B. (2019). CRISPR-TSKO: A Technique for Efficient Mutagenesis in Specific Cell Types, Tissues, or Organs in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell, tpc.00454.2019. Tegan’s favourite plant is Gloeomargarita lithophora. Joram presents the work and life of Enid MacRobbie who pioneered the use of radio tracers to measure fluxes ac...2019-10-111h 22

Plants and PipettesThere's an actual leaf in my chili Tegan was wearing beautiful earrings. Unfortunately for you, they happen to make a nice little clinking sound that you might or might not pick up from the recording. Also I had terrible discipline in touching noisy wrapping paper. We’re terribly sorry, but the episode is worth it, I promise. Tegan’s paper: Fang, J., Zhang, F., Wang, H., Wang, W., Zhao, F., Li, Z., … Chu, C. (2019). Ef-cd locus shortens rice maturity duration without yield penalty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(37), 18717–18722. Help me win the community award for the Fast Forward Science Contest by liking...2019-10-041h 20

Plants and PipettesThere is no such thing as a non-GMO peanut Oh no, GMO! Did you know that your GMO-free peanuts are far from being free from transgenes? Also they’re full of chemicals, most of which are taken up by the body and used in the human metabolism. Beware the mighty peanut! Joram’s paper: Matveeva, T.V. & Otten, Widespread occurrence of natural genetic transformation of plants by Agrobacterium, L. Plant Mol Biol (2019). Tegan’s favourite plant is Lagarostrobos franklinii. Joram presents the work of Wangari Muta Maathai. She was a biologist, political activist and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Eat you...2019-09-271h 27

Plants and PipettesDon't be a swan Animal monogamy is overrated, especially in swans. Swans have worms are always angry. Don’t be a swan. Be an Arabidopsis. (we were both sleep deprived by the time we recorded this episode, so i guess you do the same to adjust to our mindset) Tegan’s paper: Yi, P. and Goshima, G. (2019), Transient cotransformation of CRISPR/Cas9 and oligonucleotide templates enables efficient editing of target loci in Physcomitrella patens. Plant Biotechnol J. doi:10.1111/pbi.13238 Joram’s favourite plant is Coleochaete scutata. Here is a cool video with the spinning plastids done by Henrik Buschmann (his twi...2019-09-201h 08

Plants and PipettesHigh achievers in science We are not only achievers in science, we are officially high achievers in science. Don’t believe us? Ask Stefanie, she’ll tell you. This week we bring you research on agrivoltaics, facts about tulips and two tired podcasters. Please enjoy. Joram’s paper: Barron-Gafford, G. A., Pavao-Zuckerman, M. A., Minor, R. L., Sutter, L. F., Barnett-Moreno, I., Blackett, D. T., … Macknick, J. E. (2019). Agrivoltaics provide mutual benefits across the food–energy–water nexus in drylands. Nature Sustainability. Here is the twitter thread explaining the findings by the first author. We have been invited to t...2019-09-131h 24

Plants and PipettesPipettes and the use of pipettes in pipetting We had a picnic (not during the podcast, but just before the podcast) and it was really nice. Consider having a picnic yourself, and while your picnicing, listen to this episode on repeat over your car stereo (leave the doors open for enhanced sound). This is how all Berliners spend their summer. Tegan’s paper: Zhao, E. M., Suek, N., Wilson, M. Z., Dine, E., Pannucci, N. L., Gitai, Z., … Toettcher, J. E. (2019). Light-based control of metabolic flux through assembly of synthetic organelles. Nature Chemical Biology, 15(6), 589–597. Joram’s favourite plant is Aristolochia arborea because it mimics mus...2019-09-061h 04

Plants and PipettesDon't get me started on the gig economy We’re busy with applying for jobs and still we’re making more episodes for you. Aren’t we nice? We’re really nice. Plants are also nice and so is plant research. We talk about plant research so this podcast is also nice. Check out the career conversation podcast! It’s good! Joram’s paper: Belbin, F. E., Hall, G. J., Jackson, A. B., Schanschieff, F. E., Archibald, G., Formstone, C., & Dodd, A. N. (2019). Plant circadian rhythms regulate the effectiveness of a glyphosate-based herbicide. Nature Communications, 10(1), 3704. Tegan’s favourite plant are two plants and they...2019-08-301h 05

Plants and PipettesTegan, tell us about your sparkly armpits What? Another episode? I thought we were done with episodes. Okay okay, here we go again. Plant science. We love it. You love us. You must love plant science. Tegan’s paper: He, J., Ye, W., Choi, D. S., Wu, B., Zhai, Y., Guo, B., … Ma, J. (2019). Structural analysis of Phytophthora suppressor of RNA silencing 2 (PSR2) reveals a conserved modular fold contributing to virulence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(16), 8054–8059. Little edit note: Phytophthora is not actually a regular fungus, it is an oomycete, which is a fungus-like eukaryote. Joram’s favourite plant are...2019-08-231h 15

Plants and PipettesThis episode will cure cancer If you are a plant you are probably indifferent to podcasts. So I’ll just assume you’re a human with ears who also likes podcasts. Boy, are you in for a treat because this here is a new episode of a podcast. What a coincidence! We talk about plant research and non-plant research. Excited? We are too! Joram’s paper: Zhang, W., Corwin, J. A., Copeland, D. H., Feusieran’s, J., Eshbaugh, R., Cook, D. E., … Kliebenstein, D. J. (2019). Plant–necrotroph co-transcriptome networks illuminate a metabolic battlefield. ELife, 8. Tegan’s favourite plant is Rhizanphella as featured in t...2019-08-161h 06

Plants and PipettesVoldemort can't produce a patronus Hello and welcome to another podcast episode. We talk about antagonistic patronuseses, thoroughly researched favourite plants and so many fun facts. Like so many, I can’t even count them. Tegan’s paper: Cromer, L., Jolivet, S., Singh, D. K., Berthier, F., De Winne, N., De Jaeger, G., … Mercier, R. (2019). Patronus is the elusive plant securin, preventing chromosome separation by antagonizing separase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201906237. Joram’s favourite plant is the bird of paradise plant. “I’m 37 years old and just today realized it’s called bird of paradise because it looks like t...2019-08-091h 10

Plants and PipettesPlants and Pipettes and Pens and Paper For the first half, Tegan is pretty much eating ice cream and Joram is talking about plant science to himself – and to you people out there. So be kind and support Joram in his struggle and listen to his tales. You might also have ice cream to go with it. Joram’s paper: Sun, Y., Wollman, A. J. M., Huang, F., Leake, M. C., & Liu, L.-N. (2019). Single-Organelle Quantification Reveals Stoichiometric and Structural Variability of Carboxysomes Dependent on the Environment. The Plant Cell, 31(7), 1648 LP – 1664. Tegan’s favourite plant is the hog peanut. Fun Stuff...2019-07-261h 02

Plants and PipettesThe one about the climate crisis What is more fun than talking about molecular research? I hope you’re shouting now “diving deep into the horrors of the climate crisis!” because you’re right. In this fun and upbeat episode we wonder whether we can stop the climate crisis by planting trees. Can you guess the answer? Tegan’s paper: Bastin, J.-F., Finegold, Y., Garcia, C., Mollicone, D., Rezende, M., Routh, D., … Crowther, T. W. (2019). The global tree restoration potential. Science, 365(6448), 76–79. It’s the end of the world as they know (the distinct burden of being a climate scientist) The guardian on...2019-07-191h 00

Plants and PipettesI literally don't know any words How not to get murdered? Will plants save you? No. If you ever get murdered, Tegan has some no legally binding advice for you. Apart from life-saving murder prevention tips we have a new paper on wheat research for you and also a favourite plant. Joram’s paper: Voss-Fels, K. P., Stahl, A., Wittkop, B., Lichthardt, C., Nagler, S., Rose, T., … Snowdon, R. J. (2019). Breeding improves wheat productivity under contrasting agrochemical input levels. Nature Plants, 5(7), 706–714. Tegan’s favourite plant: Enigmatic new bush tomato Non-true cat fact: Cat caught mouse after seeing it on CCTV 2019-07-1257 min

Plants and PipettesQUILTBAG Joram took an electric scooter through the best city in the world to join Tegan in her kitchen for yet another episode about plants and pipettes and things that are fun. Tegan’s paper: Weits, D. A., Kunkowska, A. B., Kamps, N. C. W., Portz, K. M. S., Packbier, N. K., Nemec Venza, Z., … Licausi, F. (2019). An apical hypoxic niche sets the pace of shoot meristem activity. Nature, 569(7758), 714–717. The root article we published last week (or the week before if you’re listening to this one week later (don’t listen to this later than that or this...2019-07-0549 min

Plants and PipettesJoachim Phoenix Friday, Friday we get down on Friday, Saturday is the next day and Sunday comes afterwards! Oh, and a new podcast episode. This time, we were a little bit rambly but we managed to cover everything important. And the windows was also open because we had like four million degrees inside, scientifically speaking. Joram’s paper: Mehta, D., Stürchler, A., Anjanappa, R. B., Zaidi, S. S.-A., Hirsch-Hoffmann, M., Gruissem, W., & Vanderschuren, H. (2019). Linking CRISPR-Cas9 interference in cassava to the evolution of editing-resistant geminiviruses. Genome Biology, 20(1), 80. Articles on CRISPR on plants and pipettes Teg...2019-06-2840 min

Plants and PipettesPPR-protein-expression-system-plant: very good ☁☂ Despite a MASSIVE thunderstorm we came together and recorded episode 10 for you guys. Aren’t we great? Yes, we are. Tegan’s paper: Engineered PPR proteins as inducible switches to activate the expression of chloroplast transgenes, Margarita Rojas, Qiguo Yu, Rosalind Williams-Carrier, Pal Maliga & Alice Barkan, Nature Plants, volume 5, pages505–511 (2019) Joram’s favourite plant has the biggest leaves. This palm is a total cheat so let’s praise giant rhubarb instead. Joram and the giant rhubarb Tegan and the medium sized rhubarb Our listener question of the day: do you think we can eat everything th...2019-06-2148 min

Plants and PipettesHarry Bittercress and the suspicious petals This week, we’re trying something new! Instead of doing a longer episode with two papers, we’re doing just one paper and instead release weekly! All thanks to us benevolent researchers listening to the voices of you, the common people of instagram. This week, Joram is nerding out about Harry Bittercress, the newest star on the firmament of young adult research articles. Tegan’s favourite plant is super slick and super endangered and then we have an app for you and some feline fun facts. If you don’t listen to this episode, then someone else will, so...2019-06-1433 min

Plants and PipettesCrouching Dragon Hidden Protein Welcome again to another episode of our little podcast. This week, we’re talking about the intricacies of Saffron and Tegan’s paper: Schmidt, T. , Heitkam, T. , Liedtke, S. , Schubert, V. and Menzel, G. (2019), Adding color to a century‐old enigma: multi‐color chromosome identification unravels the autotriploid nature of saffron (Crocus sativus) as a hybrid of wild Crocus cartwrightianus cytotypes. New Phytol, 222: 1965-1980. doi:10.1111/nph.15715 Joram’s paper: The Role of Plastidic Trigger Factor Serving Protein Biogenesis in Green Algae and Land Plants, Marina Rohr, Fabian Ries, Claudia Herkt, Vincent Leon Gotsmann, Lisa Désirée Westrich, Karin...2019-05-1758 min

Plants and PipettesSeven Dish Hello again! Do you want to know about a potentially organic alternative to glyphosate and the recycling system of organelle DNA? You came to the right place podcast! We also have a new favourite plant and some fun stuff for you! Joram’s paper: Brilisauer, K., Rapp, J., Rath, P., Schöllhorn, A., Bleul, L., Weiß, E., … Forchhammer, K. (2019). Cyanobacterial antimetabolite 7-deoxy-sedoheptulose blocks the shikimate pathway to inhibit the growth of prototrophic organisms. Nature Communications, 10(1), 545. Tegan’s paper: Takami, T., Ohnishi, N., Kurita, Y., Iwamura, S., Ohnishi, M., Kusaba, M., … Sakamoto, W. (2018). Organelle DNA degradation contributes...2019-05-031h 06

Plants and PipettesWhat's the deal with ferns and their epidermis? New Friday, new Podcast! In this episode, we jump right into the study of fern stomata and resurrection plants in the desert. And we have a #plantsound today! As always, let us know in the comments if you have any questions or thoughts on the topics we discuss. Have fun! Joram’s paper: Hydraulics Regulate Stomatal Responses to Changes in Leaf Water Status in the Fern Athyrium filix–femina, Amanda A. Cardoso, Joshua M. Randall, Scott A. M. McAdam, Plant Physiology Feb 2019, 179 (2) 533-543; DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.01412 Message us if you know what the deal is with ferns an...2019-04-191h 06

Plants and PipettesHot Junk All good things come in fours: the number of legs on a cat, how often you should brush your teeth per day and the number of weeks in a month in February on a non-leap year. Oh, and this podcasts current episode count until the next episode comes. This week, we talk about seed germination and junk DNA. And pretty pictures, which always works well on an audio medium. Tegan’s paper: Wei Ma et al., Mitochondrial small heat shock protein mediates seed germination via thermal sensing, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2019, 116 (10) 4716-4721...2019-04-051h 09

Plants and PipettesThrowing Shade Dingdingdingding it’s a new episode of the plants and pipettes podcast! This week, Tegan brought you a paper about how plants recognise their family growing left and right of them. Joram looked at vernalisation and how it is triggered after winter when plants bolt and produce flowers. Enjoy! Tegan’s paper: Crepy, M. A. and Casal, J. J. (2015), Photoreceptor‐mediated kin recognition in plants. New Phytol, 205: 329-338. doi:10.1111/nph.13040 Joram’s paper: Gibbs, D. J., Tedds, H. M., Labandera, A.-M., Bailey, M., White, M. D., Hartman, S., … Holdsworth, M. J. (2018). Oxygen-dependent proteolysis regulates the stabil...2019-03-221h 15

Plants and PipettesPee-rigation Another fortnight, another episode! In episode 2 of the Plant and Pipettes Podcast we explore again two journals from the past months. Joram brought up his favourite topic: urine irrigation of meadows by cows and the resulting nitrogen cycles. Tegan on the other hand talked about research on photorespiration and how scientists found a shortcut that could result in massive increases in crop yield. Paper 1: Tonn B, Porath I, Lattanzi FA, Isselstein J (2019) Urine effects on grass and legume nitrogen isotopic composition: Pronounced short-term dynamics of δ15N. PLOS ONE Paper 2: P.F. South el al., Synthetic glycola...2019-03-081h 16

Plants and PipettesNo Touchy the Planty 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! If you have comments about the things we said, please post them below on plantsandpipettes.com. We’d love to hear your feedback! 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 Pape...2019-02-221h 55