Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner

show.

Super geek alert today, and that's not necessarily anything new.

But this episode is a first, even though the star of the conversation involves beneficial

nematodes, a topic that we have talked about before more than once, but as we're learning

beneficial nematodes can be a great solution to organically managing many of our most troublesome

past while they're spending part of their life cycle underground without having to deal

with that problem, once they're above ground and more likely to adversely affect our

plants.

So as my team and I were looking for that next expert, we came across our guest today,

Dr. Fatma Kaplan, to say that she's qualified to talk about nematodes would be a gross

understatement.

She has a PhD in plant molecular and cellular biology.

She's a scientist, an entrepreneur, and co-founder and CEO of Ferenem.

And the person who first discovered a breakthrough connection between using certain pheromones to

enhance beneficial nematodes ability to attack pest insects underground.

So if you didn't catch that, just rewind this a few seconds and listen to that again.

But that is a super major breakthrough for those of us who are really looking for those

biological controls to deal with those pests in the most efficient way possible, especially

when they're underground and before they can do their real damage.

And along the way, by the way, Dr. Fatma Kaplan also discovered a way biologically to

repel plant parasitic nematodes from host plants.

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