Show notes
We are back from the break! We are completely different but also pretty much the same so come along and learn about mucus seeds, pink cotton, dandelion physics and a play performed by two very much non-actors.
- Ethereal New Plant Species Doesn’t Use Photosynthesis – It’s Found Something Sneakier
- “Pink cotton candy” – A new dye‐free cotton – Li – Plant Biotechnology Journal – Wiley Online Library
- Research Progress of Betalain in Response to Adverse Stresses and Evolutionary Relationship Compared with Anthocyanin
- Flower patterns improve foraging efficiency in bumblebees by guiding approach flight and landing – Richter – Functional Ecology – Wiley Online Library
- armor or invisibility cloak? Mucilage‐bound sand physically protects seeds from rodents and invertebrates – LoPresti – Journal of Ecology – Wiley Online Library
- Genomic analysis of an ultrasmall freshwater green alga, Medakamo hakoo | Communications Biology
- Cytological Evidence of Cell-Nuclear Genome Size of a New Ultra-Small Unicellular Freshwater Green Alga
- Smallest known freshwater green algae, Medakamo hakoo, discovered
- Warming-induced changes of broccoli head to cauliflower-like curd in Brassica oleracea are regulated by DNA methylation as revealed by methylome and transcriptome co-profiling | Molecular Horticulture
- Why dandelion seeds are so good at spreading widely
- Environmental morphing enables informed dispersal of the dandelion diaspore | eLife
- Three dialogs between a Professor and a student who performed an experiment without including controls – KamounLab
- The Lost History of Cat Domestication Can Finally Be Told : ScienceAlert
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