{"id":17036,"date":"2022-08-26T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=127167"},"modified":"2022-08-26T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:45:08","slug":"instant-genius-podcast-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-david-gibson","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/instant-genius-podcast-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-david-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Genius Podcast: How plants solve crimes, with David Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Daniel Bennett\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 26 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Instant Genius<\/em> is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week\u2019s episode, we talk to David Gibson, a professor of plant biology.<\/p>\n

He talks about forensic botany \u2013 the study of plants to help solve crimes \u2013 and lists a number of real-life cases involving fungi, plants and algae.<\/p>\n\nFind\u00a0Instant Genius<\/em> on your preferred podcast platform here: <a href=\"\/\/instantgenius.podlink.to\/Podcast"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">instantgenius.podlink.to\/Podcast<\/a><\/p>\nListen to more episodes of\u00a0Instant Genius<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/space\/instant-genius-podcast-life-on-mars-with-lewis-dartnell\/"\">Life on Mars, with Lewis Dartnell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/the-human-body\/instant-genius-podcast-the-evolution-of-human-childhood-with-dr-brenna-hassett\/"\">The evolution of human childhood, with Dr Brenna Hassett<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/nature\/instant-genius-podcast-the-science-of-crabs-with-peter-davie\/"\">The science of crabs, with Peter Davie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/space\/instant-genius-podcast-meteorites-with-dr-tim-gregory\/"\">Meteorites, with Dr Tim Gregory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/nature\/instant-genius-podcast-drought-with-kevin-hiscock\/"\">Drought, with Kevin Hiscock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/nature\/instant-genius-podcast-what-caused-the-heatwave-and-drought-with-dann-mitchell\/"\">What caused the heatwave and drought, with Dann Mitchell<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Daniel Bennett Published: Friday, 26 August 2022 at 12:00 am Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week\u2019s episode, we talk to David Gibson, a professor of plant biology. He talks about forensic botany \u2013 the study of plants to help solve crimes \u2013 and lists a number of real-life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17037,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/08\/instant-genius-podcast-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-david-gibson.jpg",940,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/08\/instant-genius-podcast-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-david-gibson-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/08\/instant-genius-podcast-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-david-gibson-300x128.jpg",300,128,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/08\/instant-genius-podcast-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-david-gibson-768x327.jpg",768,327,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/08\/instant-genius-podcast-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-david-gibson.jpg",800,340,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/08\/instant-genius-podcast-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-david-gibson.jpg",940,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/08\/instant-genius-podcast-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-david-gibson.jpg",940,400,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Daniel Bennett Published: Friday, 26 August 2022 at 12:00 am Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week\u2019s episode, we talk to David Gibson, a professor of plant biology. He talks about forensic botany \u2013 the study of plants to help solve crimes \u2013 and lists a number of real-life…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/17036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}