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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 flowers
• Nepenthes 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 Sale
• Full article: The effects of GABA in plants
• Yeast and bacteria together biosynthesize plant hormones for weed control: Synthetic strigolactones could also improve nutrient uptake in crops 
• Why can’t house cats roar?

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 2935–2949
• Seeds inspire miniature sensors that float through the air
• Language extinction triggers the loss of unique medicinal knowledge  
• Invasive Cheatgrass Spreads Under City Lights
• Fifteen compelling open questions in plant cell biology
• Australian funder backflips on controversial preprint ban 
• Male seahorses grow placentas to incubate their young

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Who’s got one foot and so many chloroplasts? Well, not this guy but this weird sea slug. We talked about our friends the chloroplast stealing sea slugs before, and today we bring news on them from a recent study. Do the stolen chloroplasts really work? Find out this and more on today’s fresh episode!… Read more

We’re starting the second batch: 101 to 200. This week, we’re talking STEAM, ivy, and plasma. Also, we finally uncover the personalities of cats. Come along!

• English Ivy (Hedera helix) , also common ivy
• ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG (project)
• Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (Wikipedia)
• ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG (website)
• Wake up and smell the extinct leucadendrons 
• Neglect of probability 
• Sueing the state for better climate action
• German climate change law violates rights, court rules 
• Cold plasma could transform the sustainable farms of the future
• Airborne sperms of Conocephalum conicum (liverworts) HD size movie 
• ‘Anti-rust’ coating for plants protects against disease with cellulose nanofiber
• Rolling pits of Hartmann’s mountain zebra (Zebra equus hartmannae) increase vegetation diversity and landscape heterogeneity in the Pre‐Namib 
• Scientists Studied Thousands of Cats And Identified 7 Distinct Personality Traits
•  Gato malo :: Thug Life

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It wasn’t always easy. It was no walk in the park. But with perseverance, focus and endurance we made it to 100 mostly plant science facts! I think we all deserve a round of applause, a pat on the back and a new hoya for the living room. Enjoy!… Read more

They didn’t think we could do it and then we did. This is batch three of four, with the facts 50 to 75 in our countdown (countup?) to 100 mostly plant science facts. … Read more

We underpromised and overdelivered: You wanted 100 facts, we gave you that and a bit more over the span of 4 episodes. This is batch 2: 26 to 50. We have trees, marine microorganisms, old trees, lasers and a plant that cannot die.… Read more

Yay! It is episode 100! To celebrate, we’re bringen 100 mostly plant science facts to you. Because we can’t ask you to listen to us for THAT long, we’re splitting the bulk. So get ready for the first 25(ish) facts from our giant list!… Read more