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Nov 2024 Update: We're active on Bluesky: @bitkblog.bsky.social Old tweets by The Botanist in the Kitchen blog by Jeanne L. D. Osnas and Katherine Preston

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Happy #Plantsgiving! Whether you're using canned pumpkin or cooking your own for your pumpkin pie, here's what you need to know to turn your kitchen into a botany lab. Also: we're active on bluesky now. @bitkblog.bsky.social botanistinthekitchen.blog/20…
Squashes Demystified

Squashes Demystified

A Seminole pumpkin in my garden near DC, a decade ago A Seminole pumpkin in a CSA box a decade ago got me thinking about squash diversity. Market bins and seasonal displays that autumn overflowed w…

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🎉🆕📰🎉: Making a greener planet: nature documentaries promote plant awareness doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac149?…

Making a greener planet: nature documentaries promote plant awareness

AbstractBackground and Aims. Plants underpin life on Earth and are essential to human existence. Alarmingly, almost 40% of plant species are under threat o

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@taprootmag sent this lily photo of my article in the latest issue (LUNAR), illustrations by @JuliaDitto.
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A cool lens for exploring plant phys
Jess Gersony (she|her) (@Jess_Gersony) profile pictureJess Gersony (she|her)@Jess_Gersony12 Dec 2022
🌿next semester, I'm planning to teach a PLANT PHYSIOLOGY class entirely framed in ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE perspectives! as someone who is relatively new to thinking about environmental justice x plant interactions, i'm wondering what issues/concepts first come to your mind?!?!?
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@taprootmag sent this photo of my essay in the latest issue with illustrations by @JuliaDitto
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Not a tree my friends, A LEAF! Amorphophallus titanum.
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Battling plant blindness with poetry
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I am really exited to an advance copy of my new journey into the wonderfulness of plants! It's about the coming together of plants and people through naming.. I learned sooo much writing it! Out 22 September via @NHM_London... And in USA from @UChicagoPress
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Happy birthday @KatherinePres10
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We enjoyed hearing about this work at #Botany22.
Ryan Folk 🐕 (@ry_folk) profile pictureRyan Folk 🐕@ry_folk3 Aug 2022
A long promised work on origins of nodulation in angiosperms is out as a preprint! A data-intensive museum-based approach, the first of its kind, leads to a novel, nuanced model of the evolutionary origins of the nodule organ. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Two shifts in evolutionary lability underlie independent gains and losses of root-nodule symbiosis...

Two shifts in evolutionary lability underlie independent gains and losses of root-nodule symbiosis...

Root nodule symbiosis (RNS) allows plants to access atmospheric nitrogen converted into usable forms through a mutualistic relationship with soil bacteria. RNS is a complex trait requiring coordina...

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Delighted to be included in Taproot Issue 51::IMAGINE. Read all about Brassica oleracea! @JuliaDitto’s art is gorgeous. taprootmag.com/products/issu…
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The first page of my essay “Nettled” and @JuliaDitto’s beautiful artwork in the current issue of @taprootmag.
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My essay “Nettled” appears in the current issue of Taproot. taprootmag.com/products/issu…
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Dissecting the pine nut; and pine sex as a metaphor for investing in future generations. If you are lucky enough to encounter a pine nut this holiday season, it's worth giving this some thought. Another fascinating post from Katherine Preston. botanistinthekitchen.blog/20…
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This holiday favorite inspires smooches, feeds birds, and may help treat cancer. But it also has a dark side on.natgeo.com/3maV3Fl
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Chasing pickled peaches botanistinthekitchen.blog/20… via @BitKblog
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Andddd #NPRShortWave has entered the vegetables-are-a-lie-chat
Molly Edwards, PhD (@science_irl) profile pictureMolly Edwards, PhD@science_irl11 Jun 2021
Thought I was dreaming but turns out I am actually on @NPR talkin' about how bonkers broccoli is 🥦🥦🥦 Thankyouthankyou @maddie_sofia, it was the botanical thrill of a lifetime to go bananas for Brassica on #NPRShortWave! npr.org/2021/06/10/100514070…

Yep, We Made Up Vegetables : Short Wave

After hearing a vicious rumor on the internet that vegetables aren't real, Maddie goes looking for answers. Turns out, vegetables are a mere culinary construct. Still healthful and delicious, but a...

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