Bishop’s balls

Plants and Pipettes

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!

• Bits und Bäume
• Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
• Gomphocarpus physocarpus – Wikipedia
• Gomphocarpus physocarpus
• Reward research for being useful — not just flashy
• A bryophyte-like polymer layer protected supercapacitor electrode with enhanced cycling stability
• A nuclear import pathway exploited by pathogenic noncoding RNAs
• Every Life Form on Earth Uses The Same Chemical For Energy. This Could Explain Why. : ScienceAlert
• A prebiotic basis for ATP as the universal energy currency | PLOS Biology
• Massive crossover suppression by CRISPR–Cas-mediated plant chromosome engineering
• Algae as microscopic biorefineries — ScienceDaily
• In vivo Olefin Metathesis in Microalgae Upgrades Lipids to Building Blocks for Polymers and Chemicals – Schunck – Angewandte Chemie International Edition – Wiley Online Library
• Structure of wheat immune protein resolved — important tool in the battle for food security — ScienceDaily
• A wheat resistosome defines common principles of immune receptor channels | Nature
• CAN OF SPINACH, a novel long non-coding RNA, affects iron deficiency responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
• Ahmet’s answer on twitter
• Watch A Houseplant Control A Machete-Wielding Robotic Arm, For Science | IFLScience
• Increasing evidence that bears are not carnivores: Given a choice, captive bears mimic mixed diets of wild peers — ScienceDaily
• Ursids evolved early and continuously to be low-protein macronutrient omnivores | Scientific Reports

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Chapters

1. intro (00:00:00)

2. Bishop's balls (00:05:23)

3. The reason for ATP (00:10:55)

4. Magnetic plants (00:15:00)

5. Rewwards for flashy science (00:21:10)

6. Chromosome manipulation with CRISPR (00:24:43)

7. Biorefineries in algae (00:26:27)

8. Bryophyte inspiration (00:28:36)

9. Can of Spinach (00:30:42)

10. Returning RNAs (00:34:18)

11. Wheat immunity (00:37:19)

12. Machete plant (00:42:28)

13. Cat facts (00:43:35)

14. Outro (00:48:59)