Don’t pick the penis plants

Plants and Pipettes

This week, we’re talking about a cool gene regulatory mechanism that keeps ribosomes busy, the truth behind French lillies and which plants best not to pick.

• Jérémie Makiese – Miss You – Belgium – Official Music Video – Eurovision 2022
• Noise reduction by upstream open reading frames | Nature Plants
• Wu, HW., Fajiculay, E., Wu, JF. et al. Noise reduction by upstream open reading frames. Nat. Plants (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01136-8
• Upstream open reading frame – Wikipedia
• Stop picking carnivorous penis plants, Cambodian environmental officials plead | Live Science
• Fleur-de-lis – Wikipedia
• Making New Climate Data from Old Timber | The New Yorker
• A first: Scientists grow plants in soil from the Moon — ScienceDaily
• Plant-inspired TransfOrigami microfluidics
• The invaders destroyed the National Gene Bank of Plants of Ukraine | odessa-journal.com
• Cats Remember Each Other’s Names, Japanese Study Suggests

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Paper of the week (00:06:44)

3. Stop picking penis plants (00:23:33)

4. French lillies (00:25:40)

5. Wood beam rings (00:28:42)

6. TransfOrigami (00:32:23)

7. pangenomics (00:36:36)

8. Moon soil plants (00:43:58)

9. Ukraine's lost gene bank (00:48:12)

10. Cat fact (00:49:15)

11. Outro (00:54:31)