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… toxic – can cause liver cancer and infects peanuts and corn if they’re not stored properly. And so I read lots of … my Peace Corps volunteer stint, and that it was in all the maize. So the main food that you ate was called Papa, which is this maize meal. And he was talking about how all this – …

… Also, along the way, I declared a position on candy corn, which is perfect timing for an October podcast … it looked like he had like a giant thing of like candy corn on his bench. And I was like, what is that? It’s … mil Falcon tube, that visually looks like a piece of candy corn. Right? It’s like colorless– DAN UDWARY: Just layers of …

… There is very strong purifying selection, and what matters is a final product. So it doesn’t matter what … metabolic network in each specific organism. Really, what matters is the forces that are acting upon them. DAN UDWARY: … things, you end up having chemical diversity, because what matters is not a particular structure but the ability of the …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it … infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a plethora of antibiotics called … are even more to find. Zealexins are produced in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and …

… plant species; and first-generation biofuel targets (i.e. corn, sugarcane, rapeseed/canola, palm oil). Projects …

… through their roots, creating a lively zone called the rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge …

… mosaic theory. MARC: So how quick, and how much geography matters, is going to be a function of what the molecules are … fungus, but it’s really similar to like human crops like corn. There’s low genetic diversity in the crop. So they’re …