Improving The Productivity And Quality Of Orchard And Vineyard Crops With Abhaya Dandekar

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today we connect with Abhaya Dandekar, a Distinguished Professor at UC Davis and Director at the Plant Transformation Facility. Abhaya focuses his research on the dissection of plant phenotypes in order to describe plant responses. He aims to do this by defining the underlying molecular genetics at work – as well as the biochemical and physiological mechanisms that manage the response.

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How nitrogen interacts with plant biology and the environment around us.
Why it can take multiple years for fruit and nut trees to produce.
The genetic system that fruit and nut trees belong to.
The factors that can determine the harvesting conditions of particular plants.

In this episode, we absorb in-depth information on fruit trees, vineyards, and other plants by exploring the fascinating world of molecular genetics!

You can access Abhaya Dandekar’s research for yourself by visiting scholar.google.com.

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0:00.0	So as you know, I don't know whether you know this that I think it's between about greater than 2% of all of the energy that's used globally is used to make fixed nitrogen.
0:15.0	That means to make nitrogen from the atmosphere or from fossil fuels.
0:20.0	So it's a hugely energy intensive process that makes fertilizers.
0:25.0	What happens with most trees nuts and wine is they have what you call a juvenile phase.
0:32.0	So a juvenile phase is when they are growing vegetatively.
0:36.0	That means they're producing this is vegetative material roots and leaves and branches and so on.
0:44.0	So really good process where they have to train the plant to have two codons that are then sit on a scaffold and then they have these shoots that come out.
0:53.0	And then they train the shoots so that they will get into production faster.
0:58.0	One disease, crown gall that I've been focused on for the last many years trying to find resistance to crown gall disease.
1:06.0	This is a humorous growth that many fruit trees and wines are very sensitive to and we have come up with a solution.
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