GETTING CURIOUS | Are Plants Literal Geniuses? with Professor Beronda Montgomery

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on Getting Curious, Professor Beronda Montgomery joins Jonathan to discuss plant behavior, adaptation, and communication—plus, the question on everyone’s minds: will Jonathan’s lantana plants survive the winter?! Beronda L. Montgomery is MSU Foundation Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology, she was named one of Cell’s 100 Inspiring Black Scientists in America. Professor Montgomery’s new book Lessons From Plants, published by Harvard University Press, will be released on April 6 and is available for pre-order now. You can keep up with #LessonsFromPlants on Twitter @PlantLessons. Professor Montgomery is on Twitter @BerondaM and Instagram @beronda_m. Harvard University Press is on Twitter at @Harvard_Press and @HarvardUPLondon. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Venice and every week I sit down for a 40 minute
0:04.8	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.3	On today's episode I'm joined by Michigan State University Professor Baranda Montgomery, where I ask her,
0:16.0	Are plants a literal geniuses?
0:22.0	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness. I'm so excited for this
0:25.1	episode because I have been wanting to learn about trees for so long. Without
0:29.2	any further I do, welcome to the show Professor Baranda Mockramrie,
0:32.8	who is a molecular and biology
0:35.5	and microbiology and molecular genetics
0:38.5	at Michigan State University professor,
0:41.1	the resume. and welcome.
0:44.3	Thank you so very much.
0:45.5	I think my mom is most excited about the resume,
0:48.0	but thanks a lot.
0:49.4	I mean, I can see why you have a literal and you are a professor of so many different
0:54.8	things in your title that is really I have to say coming in handy to serve our
0:59.6	outer motive and a question of the episode.
1:02.8	Now I have two prond question into this.
1:06.6	I was minding my own business in February of 2020.
1:09.2	I was in New Zealand on comedy tour.
1:11.8	And I know it's weird. It it's like it was like six weeks before
1:14.4	everything shut down so it was still like the last the last time I've ever been
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