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In Defense of Plants
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In Defense of Plants
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In Defense of Plants is brought to you by ecologist and botany-enthusiast, Matt Candeias, and aims to inspire people to care about plants as organisms.
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| Property | Content |
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| site_name | In Defense of Plants |
| title | In Defense of Plants |
| url | https://www.indefenseofplants.com |
| type | website |
| description | In Defense of Plants is brought to you by ecologist and botany-enthusiast, Matt Candeias, and aims to inspire people to care about plants as organisms. |
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- [H1] In Defense of Plants
- [H1] Ep. 557 - How to Help Fireflies
- [H1] Ep. 556 - From Seeds to Plants: A Plant Conservation Pipeline
- [H1] Ep. 555 - The Rookie Gardener
- [H1] Ep. 554 - How Plants Handle Heat Stress
- [H1] Ep. 553 - Soil Microbes & Desert Plant Restoration
- [H1] Ep. 552 - Native Plant Seed Supply Chain
- [H1] Ep. 551 - Sagebrush, Pitcher Plants, & Leaf Microbiomes
- [H1] Ep. 550 - For the Love of Flowers (feat. Sam Tallent)
- [H1] Ep. 549 - Advocating for Fallen Leaves
- [H1] Ep. 548 - Gall Wasps & Their Host Plants
- [H1] Ep. 547 - Ancient Tree Stories
- [H1] Ep. 546 -Botanical Art Connects People to Plants
- [H1] Ep. 545 - The Dynamics of Kelp Forest Ecology
- [H1] Ep. 544 - Helping Move the Needle on Sagebrush Restoration
- [H1] Ep. 543 - Cryptic Ghost Pipe Diversity
- [H1] Ep. 542 - The Passion Flower Family Revisited
- [H1] Ep. 541 - Coexistence & Maintaining Species Boundaries
- [H1] Ep. 540 - Orchids for Peace
- [H1] Ep. 539 - Exploring the Seed Microbiome
- [H1] Ep. 538 - Coastal Wetlands, Rising Seas, & Ghost Forests
- [H2] Latest & Greatest
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| Ep. 557 - How to Help Fireflies | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Botany Podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ben Pfeiffer | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Matt Candeias | Internal | Passing Juice |
| In Defense of Plants | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 556 - From Seeds to Plants: A Plant Conservation Pipeline | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| orchids | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Desert Botanical Garden | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Steve Blackwell | Internal | Passing Juice |
| conservation podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
| ecological restoration | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 555 - The Rookie Gardener | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Chloe Foster | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 554 - How Plants Handle Heat Stress | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| drought | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| heat shock proteins | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Fremont cottonwood | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Populus fremontii | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Dr. Brad Posch | Internal | Passing Juice |
| biology podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 553 - Soil Microbes & Desert Plant Restoration | Internal | Passing Juice |
| root fungi | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Mycorrhizal Fungi | Internal | Passing Juice |
| mycorrhizal networks | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Frémont's cottonwood | Internal | Passing Juice |
| riparian trees | Internal | Passing Juice |
| riparian restoration | Internal | Passing Juice |
| plant restoration | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| root endophytes | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Sonoran Desert | Internal | Passing Juice |
| dark septate endophytic fungi | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Ali Schuessler | Internal | Passing Juice |
| fungi podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 552 - Native Plant Seed Supply Chain | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank | Internal | Passing Juice |
| seed bank | Internal | Passing Juice |
| seed collection | Internal | Passing Juice |
| seed collecting | Internal | Passing Juice |
| native plant seeds | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| native plant garden | Internal | Passing Juice |
| sourcing native plants | Internal | Passing Juice |
| MARSB | Internal | Passing Juice |
| John Price | Internal | Passing Juice |
| native plant podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
| seed podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
| genetic diversity | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 551 - Sagebrush, Pitcher Plants, & Leaf Microbiomes | Internal | Passing Juice |
| microbiome | Internal | Passing Juice |
| leaf microbiome | Internal | Passing Juice |
| sagebrush | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Artemisia tridentata | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Sarracenia | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Nepenthes | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Cephalotus | Internal | Passing Juice |
| pitcher plants | Internal | Passing Juice |
| inquiline community | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| microbial ecology | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Dr. Leonora Bittleston | Internal | Passing Juice |
| microbe podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
| microbiome podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 550 - For the Love of Flowers (feat. Sam Tallent) | Internal | Passing Juice |
| flowers | Internal | Passing Juice |
| wildflowers | Internal | Passing Juice |
| pawpaw | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Colorado | Internal | Passing Juice |
| high plains | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Detroit | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Kudzu | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Sam Tallent | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 549 - Advocating for Fallen Leaves | Internal | Passing Juice |
| leave the leaves | Internal | Passing Juice |
| leave the leaves month | Internal | Passing Juice |
| fall | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| National Wildlife Federation | Internal | Passing Juice |
| soil health | Internal | Passing Juice |
| lightening bugs | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| HOA | Internal | Passing Juice |
| David Mizejewski | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 548 - Gall Wasps & Their Host Plants | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| silphium | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Asteraceae | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| evolution | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Dr. Louis Nastasi | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 547 - Ancient Tree Stories | Internal | Passing Juice |
| In the Circle of Ancient Trees | Internal | Passing Juice |
| dendrochronology | Internal | Passing Juice |
| tree rings | Internal | Passing Juice |
| trees | Internal | Passing Juice |
| tree culture | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Dr. Valerie Trouet | Internal | Passing Juice |
| climate | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| tree podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
| tree books | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 546 -Botanical Art Connects People to Plants | Internal | Passing Juice |
| botanical art | Internal | Passing Juice |
| American Society of Botanical Artists | Internal | Passing Juice |
| botany | Internal | Passing Juice |
| orchid art | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Carol Woodin | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Botanical Art Worldwide | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 545 - The Dynamics of Kelp Forest Ecology | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| gray whale | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| sunflower sea star | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Pycnopodia helianthoides | Internal | Passing Juice |
| sea star wasting disease | Internal | Passing Juice |
| kelp restoration | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Dr. Aaron Galloway | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Oregon Kelp Alliance | Internal | Passing Juice |
| marine biology podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
| ocean podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
| kelp podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 544 - Helping Move the Needle on Sagebrush Restoration | Internal | Passing Juice |
| big sagebrush | Internal | Passing Juice |
| sagebrush steppe | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| sagebrush restoration | Internal | Passing Juice |
| drone photography | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Tribulus terrestris | Internal | Passing Juice |
| puncturevine | Internal | Passing Juice |
| invasive species | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| wildfire | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Dr. Trevor Caughlin | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 543 - Cryptic Ghost Pipe Diversity | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Monotropa uniflora | Internal | Passing Juice |
| monotropa brittonii | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Ericaceae | Internal | Passing Juice |
| ghost pipe | Internal | Passing Juice |
| parasitic plants | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| mycorrhizae | Internal | Passing Juice |
| fungal hyphae | Internal | Passing Juice |
| parasites | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Ashley Keesling | Internal | Passing Juice |
| evolution podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 542 - The Passion Flower Family Revisited | Internal | Passing Juice |
| passion flowers | Internal | Passing Juice |
| passion fruit | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Passifloraceae | Internal | Passing Juice |
| plant systematics | Internal | Passing Juice |
| plant evolution | Internal | Passing Juice |
| plant diversity | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Passiflora | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Rebecca Hilgenhof | Internal | Passing Juice |
| nature podcase | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 541 - Coexistence & Maintaining Species Boundaries | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Lobelia | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Campanulaceae | Internal | Passing Juice |
| cardinal flower | Internal | Passing Juice |
| blue lobelia | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Lobelia cardinalis | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Lobelia siphilitica | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Dr. Andrea Case | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 540 - Orchids for Peace | Internal | Passing Juice |
| habitat conservation | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Andes Mountains | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Andean orchids | Internal | Passing Juice |
| cloud forests | Internal | Passing Juice |
| orchid tourism | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Dr. Tatiana Arias | Internal | Passing Juice |
| orchids for peace | Internal | Passing Juice |
| citizen science | Internal | Passing Juice |
| orchid podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 539 - Exploring the Seed Microbiome | Internal | Passing Juice |
| seeds | Internal | Passing Juice |
| bacteria | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Douglas fir | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Pseudotsuga menziesii | Internal | Passing Juice |
| watermelon | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Citrullus lanatus | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Dr. Gillian Bergmann | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Ep. 538 - Coastal Wetlands, Rising Seas, & Ghost Forests | Internal | Passing Juice |
| ghost forests | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| spartina | Internal | Passing Juice |
| sea level rise | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Dr. Keryn Gedan | Internal | Passing Juice |
| wetland podcast | Internal | Passing Juice |
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| Older Posts → | Internal | Passing Juice |
| There's a Pepper Inside My Pepper! | Internal | Passing Juice |
| The Carnivorous Plant Guild Welcomes a New Member | Internal | Passing Juice |
| An Endemic Spurge in Florida | Internal | Passing Juice |
| Pitcher Plant Moths and their Pitcher Plant Homes | Internal | Passing Juice |
| My Unforgettable Encounter with a Fevertree | Internal | Passing Juice |
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