Episode Archive
71 episodes of Plantopia since the first episode, which aired on April 9th, 2020.
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Willie Nelson's Bag of Spinach
June 15th, 2020 | 35 mins 28 secs
Fresh produce tastes great and is part of a healthy diet, but we all have a part to play in the war against microbial hitchhikers...even Willie.
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Editing Plant Genes
June 1st, 2020 | 24 mins 11 secs
How revolutionary methods can be used to disarm some of the most destructive pathogens that imperil the world's food supply.
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Antibiotics, Soil Microbiome, and Biological Control
May 18th, 2020 | 29 mins 9 secs
Your backyard is full of antibiotics. What they're there doing might surprise you.
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Ants as Farmers
May 4th, 2020 | 30 mins 41 secs
They’ve been farming for a lot longer than we have, and they are really good at it.
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Arms Race Part 2: AI + Cassava
April 27th, 2020 | 27 mins 50 secs
There's a farmer walking around in a developing country applying a convolutional neural network to make decisions.
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The New American Chestnut
April 20th, 2020 | 28 mins 57 secs
This is the story of the demise of the American Chestnut and how we are poised, after a century of waiting, to see its return.
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Arms Race Part 1: Ug99
April 9th, 2020 | 32 mins 13 secs
The striking parallels between wheat rust and global human epidemics.