Meet Prof. Max Jones Video Descriptive Transcript

Summary: A quick snapshot on Prof. Max Jones' research.

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Text: :60 Second Snapshots
Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Text: Prof. Max Jones
Department of Plant Agriculture
Max Jones: My research focuses on plant growth and development using systems arranged from the single-cell to an entire plant. This has a lot of applications ranging from conservation,
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large-scale plant propagation and genetic improvement of plants.

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Max Jones: Graduate students in my lab work on a wide range of things. Some are working on regeneration from  single cells. Some are working on optimizing conditions for medicinal plant production. Some are working on conservation of endangered species. It's important to preserve plants because with climate change, a lot of them are facing the threat of extinction.A lot of these plants have never really been studied. We don't know much about them. Some of them could have important ecological roles.

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Max Jones: So it's up to us to actually preserve these plans so that we can reintroduce them later if needed and so that we don't lose important biodiversity.
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The most exciting moment in my work was probably when I first looked through a microscope 
and saw a cell dividing for the first time, and while this might not be exciting to a lot of people, to me it's very interesting that the plant has the capacity to go from a single cell in to an entire organism. 
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So this was a monumental moment for me.

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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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