🌼The second episode of the BSA's new podcast---A Botanical Podcast!---is now available on all major streaming services (Apple, Spotify, etc.)!🌼 In this episode, host Shiran Ben Zeev and guest Jordan Dowell nerd out on a discussion of how plants choose to defend themselves against predators and/or manipulate other organisms to help them live their best lives, and how plants use chemistry to communicate---and what we can learn from that. They talk about the special challenges of surviving and thriving in harsh environments and touch on the evolution of chemical diversity and the effects of chemical diversity on organismal interactions across spatial and temporal scales. Dr. Dowell is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University and an Associate Editor of the BSA's Applications in Plant Sciences. He studies the evolutionary ecology of plant-plant chemical communication and the impacts of multifunctional traits on biotic interactions from single-cells to landscapes using various techniques, from metabolomic and genomic approaches to remote sensing and field-based studies. https://jordandowell.github.io/ BlueSky: volatileorganic.bsky.social https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/2446995/episodes/16564616-plants-communicating-through-chemistry-a-conversation-with-jordan-dowell #botany #plantscience #iamabotanist (fb)

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