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This is Kevin.

We're here again with Nicole Masters, an international agroecologist and a systems thinker.

And we are talking today about something very interesting.

It's something called Chorum Signalling.

And basically it's how to soil microbes and plants communicate and then how you can actually

work to harness those properties that that signaling.

So Nicole, I figured you're the expert here.

Why don't you drop some knowledge on us as to what this is in the first place.

So I'm referring to a process called Chorum Signalling, but it started originally out

of what they identified as Chorum Sensing.

So Chorum Sensing was identified in the 1960s.

They were looking at how is it that squid bioeluminous, you know, they suddenly flash and

color and light.

And it's actually a bacteria.

And what they started to research was that the bacteria would turn on or turn off in

response to signaling with chemicals, how many other organisms are individuals that

in my environment, are the others like me and when they reached a peak point, they could

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