Are your plants talking behind you? | Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng | TEDxUniAdelaide

Phd student Sabrina shared that one of the solutions to food security is understanding how plants talking behind you and how they communicate to each other. She explained that, even if we do not hear it, plants whisper. And just like human beings, time also matters to them. Pei Qin (Sabrina) Ng is currently a PhD candidate at The Plant Epigenetics and Reproduction group/Research centre of Grains for health, The University of Adelaide. She is interested in using big data, molecular techniques, and cutting-edge sequencing technologies to understand how plants respond to their environmental stimulus via RNA processing.
Through her PhD, she deciphers messages encoded on RNAs with their respective modifications ie.”punctuation marks", hence a “plant whisperer”. She is interested in basic research as she believes the best solutions to problems often comes with the profound understanding of the system itself. She is active on twitter science communication @PNgsabrina, runs a blog called “The Dataminer’s Diary”,and occasionally a guest blogger for platforms like Editage Insights. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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