Plants and Pipettes   /     Walk like an ant, look like a plant, be a spider

This week, it’s all about plants. What they do, why they do it and what to look out for when looking at plants. Marvellous!

• Carnivory on demand: phosphorus deficiency induces glandular leaves in the African liana Triphyophyllum peltatum – Winkelmann – New Phytologist – Wiley Online Library
• Nitrogen availability alters the expression of carnivory in the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea | PNAS
• Targeting of plasmodesmal proteins requires unconventional signals | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic 
• Good vibrations: how listening to the sounds of soil helps us monitor and restore forest health
• Plant pan-genomes are the new reference
• Plant pan-genomics: recent advances, new challenges, and roads ahead – ScienceDirect
• phase-separated CO2-fixing pyrenoid proteome determined by TurboID in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic
• Imperfect ant mimicry contributes to local adaptation in a jumping spider: iScience

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