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Plants and Pipettes

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?)!

• Paper of the week
  • Mycorrhizal symbiosis primes the accumulation of antiherbivore compounds and enhances herbivore mortality in tomato; Javier Rivero, Javier Lidoy, Ángel Llopis-Giménez, Salvador Herrero, Víctor Flors, María J Pozo; Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 72, Issue 13, 22 June 2021, Pages 5038–5050, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab171
• The Idea That Trees Talk to Cooperate Is Misleading
• Learning to Love GMOs (Free Access through this link)
• Australia’s cockatoos are masters of dumpster diving—and now they’re learning from each other
• TwistedDoodles on Twitter: “Here is the template I made so that you can also fill in your neighbourhood cats and share them with the world. Or just me! #neighbourhoodcats… https://t.co/hqfjei5BTi”
• it’s #BlackBotanistsWeek2021
• Shoots and leaves: the shotgun scientist who hunts moving trees
• Angelica Patterson | The Shotgun Scientist
• ‘Riding shotgun’ – meaning and origin.
• RNA demethylation increases the yield and biomass of rice and potato plants in field trials
• Mertensia maritima

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Paper of the week (00:22:20)

3. Should we treat trees as humans? (00:44:36)

4. The Missing Link (00:52:22)

5. A fine dining plant (01:01:35)

6. Black Botanists Week (01:03:06)

7. Learning to Love GMOs (01:03:48)

8. Huge Yield Increase in Rice (01:05:34)

9. Bird Culture (01:10:16)

10. Outro (01:14:08)