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Plantopia — 73 episodes

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2026 APS Fellow Feature: Dr. Christina Cowger

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The Doctor who chose plant health over human medicine

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Searching for Plantopia's New Host / Co-Host

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Lobbying for Plant Health: A conversation with D.C. lobbyist Madeline Wade

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A Conversation With Four Clinic Directors Behind The National Plant Diagnostic Network

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Field of Dreams: Plant Pathology in the Corn State

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The Accidental Plant Pathologist That Stayed

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Standing Sentry for Sweetpotato and Squash

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Vampire Plants, Witchweeds, and Other Sinister Parasitic Plants

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Going Viral

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Lessons in Resilience

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More than peanuts in the Peach State

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Good Fellows Part III

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Good Fellows Part II

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Good Fellows Part I

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A Conversation with APS President Dr. Karen Garrett

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Plants Get Parasitic Worms Too

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The Fastidious and The Curious

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Why a Collection of Dead Fungi Matters

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Mexico's agricultural extension ambassador

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Ghost Forests and Other Terrifying Tales About Trees

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Searching for Cereal Killers

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Insights Into Industry

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The Clubroot King of Canada

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Planting the Seeds of Innovation

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Chaos in the Clinic

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Plant Pathology 101

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Soilborne in the U.S.A.

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Spurring Onward: Confessions of a Midwestern Plant Pathologist

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A Perfect Trifecta: A Plant Health Career in Government, Academia and the Private Sector

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Plant Health is a Global Affair

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Making a Big WAVE in Food Security

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Saying “Yes” to Mungbeans and Multi-disciplinarity

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One Health, One Epic Conference (ICPP Edition)

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Plant Health from the Ground Up

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West Wing Confidential: Tales of a Career in Mycology

37

No Stowaways: The Science of International Seed Trade and Plant Health

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Collecting Samples, Bridging Silos: Plant Diagnostics and the NPDN

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On the Right Footing

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When Research Goes Up In Smoke

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A Feeling for the Organism: Perspectives on a Career in Plant Pathology

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The Science Behind Healthy Christmas Trees

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Graduate student professional development, industry careers, and plant defense

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The Science of Plant Pathology and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

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Small RNAs: From Plant/Microbe Interactions to COVID Vaccines

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Brains Like to Think

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Leveraging the Social Sciences for Greater Plant Health

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APS Leadership: Unified Vision Even in Times of Change

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Of Peeps and People…and Plant Pathology

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When plant health meets human health: Is agriculture contributing to the rise of antibiotic-resistant human pathogens?

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Rising to the Occasion: Moving Up Through the Plant Pathology Industry

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Insights on Streak Mosaic Virus and Its Impact on Cereal Crops

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Season 2 Coming Soon!

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Robotics Revolution: Part 2

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Robotics Revolution: Part 1

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Cranberries

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Resist!

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For the Greater Good...of Wine

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A Distinct Amount of Human Suffering

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The Future Looks Bright

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What Can Plants Teach Us About Pandemics?

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The Wonderful World of Worms

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The Adventures of Sooty Blotch & Flyspeck

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The Rodney Dangerfield of the Microbial World

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The Definition of Insanity

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Seeds!

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Willie Nelson's Bag of Spinach

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Editing Plant Genes

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Antibiotics, Soil Microbiome, and Biological Control

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Ants as Farmers

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Arms Race Part 2: AI + Cassava

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The New American Chestnut

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Arms Race Part 1: Ug99