Gotta Catch 'Em Gall
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Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to grow structures called galls.
In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these weird little pods.
Links from this episode:
- Episode Transcript
- Paper: Cynipid wasps systematically reprogram host metabolism and restructure cell walls in developing galls
- Our contact info:
- Twitter: @JGI
- Email: jgi-comms at lbl dot gov
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