Meet Prof. Peter Pauls Video Descriptive Transcript

Summary: A quick snapshot on Prof. Peter Pauls' research and thoughts on graduate studies.

0:00 - 0:05 
[Music plays; White screen fades in to show University of Guelph logo; red and black text appears]
Text: :60 Second Snapshots
Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College

0:06 - 0:09
[Screen fades to show video of Peter Pauls speaking; University of Guelph logo and white text appear at bottom; Music fades out]
Text: Prof. Peter Pauls
Department of Plant Agriculture
Peter Pauls: My name is Peter Pauls and I'm in the Department of Plant Agriculture.

0:10 - 0:22
[Screen flashes to zoomed out video of Peter Pauls speaking]
Peter Pauls: We work at understanding plant traits at the molecular, 
[University of Guelph logo and text fade out.
genomic and field scales. These are traits that matter to producers, like disease resistance, or consumers, like nutrition.

0:23 - 0:33
[Screen flashes to zoomed in video of Peter Pauls speaking]
Peter Pauls: The most exciting part of the work is seeing an idea or an understanding translated from the molecular level to a new plant variety that incorporates that trait.

0:34 - 0:52
[Screen changes to video of research working in the field, close ups of soybeans in the field, harvesting of soybeans]
Peter Pauls: Some of the current projects that the graduate students are working on include understanding disease resistance in dry beans. Also, looking at nitrogen fixation in dry beans and also seed coat colour because that matters to a person who is making a selection in a grocery store.

0:53 - 1:04
[Screen changes to zoomed out video of Peter Pauls speaking]
Peter Pauls: I'd like undergraduate students not to be afraid about the word research. You're going to have a lot of help with your advisor and with colleagues
[Music fades in]
to help shape those experiments.

1:05 - 1:10
[Screen fades in to show OAC logo on a white background, red website link]
Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
[Screen fades to black]