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… to Natural Prodcast! This is episode 4! From here on out, for a while, we’re going to be presenting some conversations … ag[riculture] and I really liked – I became interested in plant disease in part because of what happened in my Peace … or natural product called T-toxin. And this kills corn plants. So I became very interested in toxins – phytotoxins …

… and the bacteria and how the chemistry is going back and forth between them is part of what fascinates me about what … to do an independent study on ethnobotany of some of the plants that people were using for medicines in this very … and my masters, but I ended up starting a master’s in plant ecology. And that masters helped me to figure out that …

Takemura, whose voice you’ll hear in a minute – we work for the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or … the special, natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. … eventually they figured out that they could culture the plant cells and produce enough that way in really large like …

… has a long-term partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology for our Plant Program, and is further leveraging the services of the … Genomics Institute for DNA and RNA extractions to support plant and other efforts. The JGI works closely with DOE …