S5.22 Little Shop of Genetic Horrors: the evolution of carnivorous plants
Genetics Unzipped
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The Future of Pitcher Plant Research?
The big ambitious goal is to work out how the plant makes this crazy surface and then see if we can get completely different plants that are not carnivorous, make the serve surface by messing with their genes. Wouldn't it be cool if we would have crop plants, especially in the UK, where it rains so much that get slippery when it's wet? Our average apple that you bite into has seen about 30 to 35 pesticide applications before you bite into it. It's been sprayed against insects about 30 times.
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