223-How Soil Microbes Make Good Soil Great
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Joe Lamp'l
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Soil microbes are the microscopic life in soil that work in concert with roots to feed plants. To help us better understand the symbiotic relationship between microbes and healthy plants, my guest on the podcast this week is David Stark, an expert in molecular biology.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lample. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner |
| 0:23.8 | Show. |
| 0:24.8 | Guess what? |
| 0:25.8 | It's another geek alert. |
| 0:27.6 | Today we're talking about soil microbes again, which never gets old in my book, but this |
| 0:32.4 | time the conversation is quite unique when you consider the perspective of today's |
| 0:36.9 | guest. |
| 0:37.9 | And no matter how you feel about genetic engineering or that big company that you may |
| 0:41.5 | love to hate, this is where today's story begins. |
| 0:45.4 | It's about one man's career path that started there and brought him to a completely different |
| 0:50.5 | place and where he is today. |
| 0:53.5 | Coming out of school, David Stark had a lot of promising career options, including |
| 0:57.4 | law, medicine, and advanced science, genetic engineering to be specific. |
| 1:02.3 | So he majored in genetics, cloning genes way back in 1983. |
| 1:07.3 | Dave went on to get his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, where Monsanto had |
| 1:12.6 | a big interest in their brightest students. |
| 1:15.4 | To no one's surprise, that's where Dave started, what would become a 25 year career. |
| 1:21.1 | At Monsanto, he was one of the first people ever to work on the science of genetically |
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