We turn to photobiology for answers on how to produce healthier crops.

Special Guests: Arne Stensvand and Mark Rea.

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• Cornell Chronicle — UV light may be ripe to replace chemicals in fungus fight
• Appellation Cornell — Research Focus: The Potential of Light Treatments to Suppress Certain Plant Pathogens and Pests

Tracking, testing, and stopping viruses that would otherwise wreak havoc within a population is the everyday work for some plant pathologists.

Special Guests: Ana Cristina Fulladolsa and David Carlyle.

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• Conviron:

Charles Darwin was fascinated by earthworms. You should be too.

Special Guest: Wade Elmer.

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• Conviron:

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• Using Earthworms to Improve Soil Health And Suppress Diseases

What's up with all those tiny spots on your apples?

Special Guest: Mark Gleason.

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• Conviron:
• Percival Scientific:

They are social and devious. They are far more complex, sophisticated, and organized than you might ever imagine.

Special Guest: Gwyn Beattie.

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• Percival Scientific:

Introduction, spread, destruction...repeat.

Special Guests: Dave Coyle and Jiri Hulcr.

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• Percival Scientific:

Just about every plant we want to grow comes from a seed, but where do all of those seeds come from?

Special Guest: Lindsey du Toit.

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.

Special Guests: Betsy Bihn and JP Dundore-Arias.

How revolutionary methods can be used to disarm some of the most destructive pathogens that imperil the world's food supply.

Special Guest: Morgan Carter.

Your backyard is full of antibiotics. What they're there doing might surprise you.

Special Guests: Linda Kinkel and Soledad Benitez Ponce.