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Ep. 392 - Botanizing Down Under
Episode 392
Plant ecologist Sara Johnson and I look back at a recent botanical adventure in southern Australia with fondness. Never before have we been exposed t…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 391 - A Non-Model, Model Plant Group
Episode 391
Today we are focusing on a strange genus of plants in the family Euphorbiaceae. The Dalechampia can be found growing in tropical forests throughout m…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 390 - Pinosaur Revisited
Episode 390
The Wollemi pine is one of the world's rarest trees. These mysterious gymnosperms was unknown to science until 1994. Their discovery made headlines a…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 389 - Old Growth Grasslands
Episode 389
Grasslands are in desperate need of both protecting and restoring. These important and diverse ecosystems have long been viewed as less important tha…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ep. 388 - Sprucey Soils
Episode 388
Plants help create soil just as much as they depend on it for their survival. Understanding how this affects the ecosystems that plants comprise can …
3 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 387 - A Sequenced Fern Genome
Episode 387
Ferns may have an ancient evolutionary history and enjoy something of a celebrity status among the botanically and non-botanically minded alike, but …
3 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 386 - Rethinking Black Walnut Allelopathy
Episode 386
"Don't garden under a black walnut!" If you garden in eastern North America, you may have heard some form of this advice at one point or another. Ind…
3 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 385 - Plants = Habitat
Episode 385
Habitat destruction is the leading cause of extinction on this planet. Plants = Habitat. There is no way around it. We revisit a conversation I had w…
3 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 384 - Arborvitae on the Limit
Episode 384
Edge of range dynamics are always fascinating. Range edges present lots of unique challenges for which plants must contend. When you throw humans int…
3 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 383 - Aroid Pollination is Wild!
Episode 383
This episode, we revisit a conversation I had with University of Vienna PhD student Florian Etl regarding an in depth look at a pollination system in…
4 years ago