Plants make up the fabric of our lives – the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the air we breathe. Plants are also incredible chemists, making thousands of unique molecules. While these molecules are important to humans as medicines, they are also used by the plants to cope with disease and adverse environments.
Join us for this a-maize-ing seminar on “Corn Chemistry” to learn about the chemistry happening inside corn, the most important US crop. We’ll delve into how plants make interesting molecules, and how scientists make discoveries about the genes leading to their production, as well as their function in how plants respond to disease and drought.
The lecture will be led by Stanford Chemistry alumni Katie Murphy, PhD. Dr. Murphy’s mission is to increase global food security using the power of chemistry.
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Categories: Missouri, Crops, Corn, Harvesting