Day 4 – Kranz means Wreath
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
Dec 04, 2021•8 min•Ep. 106
Plants and Pipettes
The Molecular Plant Research Podcast
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Where 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.
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 105
Day 3 - The Christmas Caterpillar
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
Dec 03, 2021•8 min•Ep. 106
Day 2 – Poinsettia
A new door is open on our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
Dec 01, 2021•12 min•Ep. 106
Day 1 - The First Christmas Tree
Door 1 of our podcast advent calendar! Every day we bring you a short story about a festive plant.
Nov 30, 2021•10 min•Ep. 106
The 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.
Oct 10, 2021•57 min•Ep. 104
DNA 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.
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 103
Eiersollbruchstellenverursacher – sea slugs, cool new wheat, talking ducks
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!
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 102
You’re going to need a zebra – Ivy, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, cold plasma
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!
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 101
We did it!
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!
Aug 29, 2021•1 hr 11 min
The world’s worst guessing game (100 facts pt. III)
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.
Aug 20, 2021•1 hr 33 min
Wow, they're really doing it (ep. 100 pt. 2)
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.
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Episode 100 pt 1: The facts awaken
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!
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 18 min
In Bird Culture, this is considered a slick move
This week, we’re talking about the wood wide web and advantages it brings to those connected to it. Also bird facts, plant facts and gun facts (wtf?)!
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 99
Praise be the Dick Rocket – Tragopogon, Bethany Nichols, AI protein prediction
This week we’re inspired by a giant dick rocket making its way into space (and also back for some reason). Before we go back to shopping online to fund the next space mission, we’re talking some awesome plant science. #inspiring
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 98
You’re wasting your space-nip! – Lettuce Opium, Dinosaurs, Fairy Lanterns
We’re back from the summer break. If you had guessed that we will be more on point, less rambly and more focussed on plants after our break I have to ask: do you even know us? Anyway, we have cool science facts and not a single cut in the entire episode.
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 97
Derp – Social Ferns, Salty Greens, Dark Biofilms
Fly like a lemur, sting like an ant in a crow, as my late grandfather used to say to me before I was born. With that in mind, let’s talk about some plant facts. We have new organs, delicious salty plants and a first of its kind almost-social fern. Let’s go!
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 96
Don’t do Chromothripsis, kids! – Epigenetics, NPAAs, quick fixes
I said hey, what’s going on? We’re more or less vaxxed, we’re excited about summer and we’re bringing plant facts! We’re diving deep into epigenetics, discuss climate fixes and talk for a surprisingly long time about marsupial genitalia. The usual.
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 95
A new hope – monkey puzzles, pride month, sleight of beak
We are very hopeful this week that many bad things will come to an end. Also, we talk about a spiky favourite tree, lots of pride in STEM and many other cool things.
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 94
Udder industry is angry – Proximity proteomics, cactus trafficking, graphene confusion
Big udder won’t like this episode – not specifically because we said anything but mostly because they are a joyless bundle of cow farts. In this brand new and highly sought-after episode, we are discussing proximity proteomics, global earthworm abundance and the best way to water your plants.
May 28, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 93
Dung 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.
May 21, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 92
At 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.
May 14, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 91
Power Plants – Vegetable Sheep, Joanne Chory, Microneedles
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.
May 07, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 90
Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut – new blue food dye, learnings from COVID, parsnip burns
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.
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 89
CAPE 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.
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 88
Licked by a bee – pollinators, plants and pollinators (also pollinators)
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.
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 87
The etymology of loot – extremophiles, subtraction bias, jargon
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!
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 86
Building 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.
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 85
Explosive Good Looking Salmon – lavender, antarctic exploration, lemurs
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.
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 84
Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung – Feral crops, seed maturation, anti-Asian racism
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.
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 83
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