Meet Prof. Paul Goodwin Descriptive Transcript

Summary: Prof. Paul Goodwin describes his research on plant microbe interactions.

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Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Paul: My area of research is in plant microbe interactions, so plants are essential for agriculture, but plants also have interactions with microorganisms in the surface and interior them, which provide major benefits to the plants, but it can also provide major problems such as plant diseases. Therefore it's important to understand how microorganisms interact with plants in order to sustain our current agricultural system.

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Paul: One of our current projects is working on ginseng replant disease. Ginseng is an important and valuable crop in Ontario, but one of its problems is that once you plant a crop of ginseng, and you try to replant the crop afterwards, the roots end up rotting, and so what we're trying to do is to understand what has changed in the soil and try to reverse that so it's possible now to grow ginseng repeatedly in the field like we can do for other major crops in Ontario like corn and soybeans.

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Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac
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