Shely Aronov: Google Translate for Plants
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5.0 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Shelly Aronov is the founder and CEO of InnerPlant. InnerPlant is kind of like Google Translate for plants. They're bioengineering plant genes so that crops can send messages to farmers, and the farmers will literally be able to understand what's going wrong with the crops. So that when they're under attack, the farmers will know much earlier than they do now.
The reason I'm so excited about what Shelly and InnerPlant are doing is because once they're launched and scaled, this will greatly reduce the use of pesticides in farming. And the faster we move away from pesticides the better as they are destroying everything in their wake.
"Plants communicate all the time, sending chemical signals to warn each other about threats. InnerPlant makes it possible to understand what plants are saying." InnerPlant
"How do you increase biodiversity and how do you increase the microbial density of the soil? You just stop killing everything out there. Right, if we stop killing every single weed, if we stop putting a ton of chemicals that are really toxic on the soil, then everything's going to bounce back and nature is really good at bouncing back." – Shely Aronov
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| 0:00.0 | Species, unite, unite. Unite. Our entire food supply is completely dependent on chemicals and |
| 0:19.0 | completely dependent on four to eight companies around the world that produce all these products. |
| 0:25.0 | Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask if you |
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| 0:44.8 | Species Unite on Apple Podcast or wherever you listen to Podcast. It really helps people |
| 0:51.4 | to find the show. |
| 0:53.0 | This conversation is with Shelly Arinoff. |
| 1:00.0 | Shelly are enough. |
| 1:03.0 | Shelly is the founder and CEO of Interplant. |
| 1:07.0 | Interplant is kind of like Google Translate for plants. |
| 1:11.0 | They are bioengineering plant genes so that crops can send messages to |
| 1:15.8 | farmers. So when they're under attack, the farmers will know much earlier than |
| 1:20.2 | they do now. The reason I'm so excited about |
| 1:22.8 | what Shelly and Interplant are doing is because once they're |
| 1:25.4 | launched and scaled, it will greatly reduce the use of pesticides and |
| 1:29.7 | farming and pesticides are destroying us, many species, as well as the planet. Shelly, thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Beth. Great to be here. |
| 1:43.0 | So, we're going to talk about |
| 1:54.5 | Interplant. I want to first learn a little bit about you and I want to also |
| 1:59.2 | really learn about what's happening now. |
| 2:03.0 | Like I was saying to you before we started, |
| 2:05.0 | I really know very little about like big real farming. |
| 2:09.0 | I would love for you to teach me a little bit about it |
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