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They trained dogs to search for underground orchids and we trained ourselves to talk about it. Amazing.

• The first evidence of microplastics in plant-formed fresh-water micro-ecosystems: Dipsacus teasel phytotelmata in Slovakia contaminated with MPs
• ‘Like finding life on Mars’: why the underground orchid is Australia’s strangest, most mysterious flower
• PROFILE | MAREE ELLIOTT
• To protect this rare underground orchid, researchers are keeping its location top secret – ABC News
• NOTES ON AUSTRALASIAN ORCHIDS 6: A NEW SPECIES OF Rhizanthella (DIURIDEAE, SUBTRIBE PRASOPHYLLINAE) FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA
• Rhizanthella gardneri – Wikipedia
• Rampant Gene Loss in the Underground Orchid Rhizanthella gardneri Highlights Evolutionary Constraints on Plastid Genomes – PMC
• Pando’s pulse: Vital signs signal need for course correction at world-renowned aspen forest
• Identification and quantification of giant bioaerosol particles over the Amazon rainforest | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
• Palynology – Wikipedia
• The Effect of Species Soybean Vein Necrosis Orthotospovirus (SVNV) on Life Table Parameters of Its Vector, Soybean Thrips (Neohydatothrips variabilis Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
• Sorting of mitochondrial and plastid heteroplasmy in Arabidopsis is extremely rapid and depends on MSH1 activity | PNAS 
• Social networks in the single cell | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic
• Altered collective mitochondrial dynamics in the Arabidopsis msh1 mutant compromising organelle DNA maintenance
• Daily briefing: Most US professors went to the same few universities
• The Story of the 2021 World Lemur Festival Logo

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