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A new episode is here! We’re talking about a sheep made of vegetables in the mountains, microneedles on plant leaves and the amazin work of Joanne Chory. 

• Raoulia
• Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
• Alpine Cushion Plants New Zealand
• Bloom of the Week – Vegetable Sheep 
• Joanne Chory
  • Washington Post article: Joanne Chory is harnessing plants to stop climate change
  • The Scientist: Into the Light: A Profile of Joanne Chory 
  • Harnessing Plants Initiative 
  • Her TED talk: Joanne Chory: How supercharged plants could slow climate 
• Genome-wide role of codon usage on transcription and identification of potential regulators
• Codon usage bias and nuclear mRNA concentration: Correlation vs.

We’re blue, da ba dee, da ba dye – Our sauerkraut senses were tingling when we read today’s science story about a blue dye made from cabbage. Also: something we can learn from the pandemic and how to get burned by parsnips.… Read more

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.… Read more

A bumblebee’s tongue is not something we thought to discuss but here we are. This week, by pure coincidence, is all about plants and their pollinators. Follow the buzz, sip some nectar and come along for some plant science.… Read more

This is technically still a plant podcast even though we talk a suspiciously long time about fancy words and worms. There is also a new favourite plant, an awesome researcher and cool new science from the last week or so!

• Eutrema salsugineum – eXtreme Plants
• Learning from Evolution: Thellungiella Generates New Knowledge on Essential and Critical Components of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants 
• Berta Lange de Morretes, 1917 – 2016 (99 years)
• Gabrielle Adams on Twitter
• Video: Less is more: Why our brains struggle to subtract
• News and Views: Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving 
• Construction of simple structures drastically improves biotope health along streams
• Hubert Duprat’ precious larvae — Cercle
• Want other scientists to cite you?

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. … Read more

There is a worm moon on the rise and we’re here for it. This week, we’re talking about the science behind lavender, the antarctic explorer Rosell Ocampo-Friedmann and our favourite bits and pieces from the last week.… Read more

This week, we’re talking about a paper that looks at the internal selection processes happening within plants to decide which fruit makes the cut. Plus a number of interesting facts from the last days.

• When a Crop Goes Back to the Wil: Feralization 
• No Effect of Selective Maturation on Fruit Traits for a Bird-Dispersed Species, Sambucus racemosa, Koyama, K.; Tashiro, M. Plants 2021, 10, 376. 
• FOSSIL PLANTS found beneath MILE-DEEP GREENLAND ICE—indicating risk of rapid sea-level rise

• A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century
• Ancient noeggerathialean reveals the seed plant sister group diversified alongside the primary seed plant radiation
• “Pompeii of Prehistoric Plants” Unlocks Evolutionary Secret – Spectacular Fossil Plants Preserved Within a Volcanic Ash Fall 
• Climate change: ‘Forever plant’ seagrass faces uncertain future
• To keep nationalism in check, nurture science solidarity World View
• The US Is Building Walls Around Science, and We’re All Poorer for It
• Introduction, adaptation and characterization of monk fruit (Siraitia grosvenorii): a non-caloric new natural sweetener
• Siraitia grosvenorii
• To Protect Local Wildlife, Feed Your Cat Meatier Meals

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?… Read more

We’re super happy to have a special guest with us this week. Aly Baumgartner is a paleontologist with a specialty in paleobotany. With her, we talk about how to find plant fossils, how to analyse them and so much more about the fascinating world of plant based paleontology. … Read more