Bishop’s balls
While plant science missed out on yet another Nobel prize, you are not missing out on yet another great plant science episode. We have a hairy balled plant, some evidence about ATP and a whole Can of Spinach!… Read more
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Party of Pokers
They trained dogs to search for underground orchids and we trained ourselves to talk about it. Amazing.… Read more
Turn humans into moss
Last week, we wanted to be moss and this week science has listened to us and turned human (cells) into moss. Well kinda. Not really. A little bit. Still, we’re excited to become moss.
- Past Ig Winners
- TALENT VERSUS LUCK: THE ROLE OF RANDOMNESS IN SUCCESS AND FAILURE | Advances in Complex Systems
- How Kenyans help themselves and the planet by saving mangrove trees | Science News
- Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- Jabuticaba – Wikipedia
- Plant mitochondrial RNA editing factors can perform targeted C-to-U editing of nuclear transcripts in human cells | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic
- Temperature induced changes in Arabidopsis Rubisco activity and isoform expression
- Rapid transgenerational adaptation in response to intercropping reduces competition | eLife
- DNA from mummy’s tomb reveals ancient Egyptian origins of watermelon | New Scientist
- A 3500-year-old leaf from a Pharaonic tomb reveals that New Kingdom Egyptians were cultivating domesticated watermelon | bioRxiv
- Genome Sequencing of up to 6,000-Year-Old Citrullus Seeds Reveals Use of a Bitter-Fleshed Species Prior to Watermelon Domestication | Molecular Biology and Evolution | Oxford Academic
- A bitter mystery: Sequencing the world’s oldest plant genome | Kew
- Plants rooted in rocks | Nature Geoscience
- Composition of continental crust altered by the emergence of land plants | Nature Geoscience
- Forest vulnerability to drought controlled by bedrock composition | Nature Geoscience
- The role of colour patterns for the recognition of flowers by bees | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Bees use patterns — not just colors — to find flowers — ScienceDaily
- How Many Ants Live on Earth?
We are mosses
If we could choose, we’d be mosses growing on opposite sides of the same tree.… Read more
Big British Cheese 1
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
It’s not you, it’s us
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
A thirsty secret
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
We’re on holiday!
No big plant news this week, we are on holiday for a couple of weeks! Talk to you soon!… Read more
The sexy mixing
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
Why do trees collect clocks?
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