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[Video: fade from black, Lana Bolin wearing a t-shirt examines a corn plant with a colleague inside a greenhouse][Audio: Music fades in and Lana Bolin speaks off screen]
My name is Lana Bolin,
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and I'm part of a project studying how microbes promote plant resilience to drought.
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We drove around
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to about 70 farms across the Midwest
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and we collected soil from the farms, brought them back to
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the greenhouse and we inoculated them
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onto corn plants. We're also collaborating with social scientists, and they interviewed the farmers
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to understand how they're managing those fields
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where we took the soil. We know whether our soils
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came from fields that were irrigated or
[Video: drone footage looking down on a tractor tilling farmland] [Audio: Lana speaks off screen]fields, where they tilled or they didn't till. We
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can link those farmer management decisions to the resilience
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that the microbes confer to the plants. So we can see,
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well, what are the actual traits that the microbes are expressing that help
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plants or hurt plants? We're hoping that this research will help us understand
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how farmers management decisions affect their
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soil microbial community and then how these microbes
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will affect their crops resilience to drought.
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