Titans of Science: Enrico Coen
About this episode
Enrico Coen discusses his research on gene interaction and plant development.
Titans of Science continues with plant biologist Enrico Coen, a professor at the John Innes Centre in Norfolk. His work investigates how genes move and interact to create tissue shapes during plant development, and how this process varies to produce such a wide range of plant forms. In this episode, we find out how Enrico's early work on fruit flies paved his path to plants, and his work on 'jumping' genes and their effect on plant variation. He's been speaking with Chris Smith. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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Host: Chris Smith
Guest: Enrico Coen
Topics covered
- plant biology
- gene interaction
- tissue shapes
- plant development
- variation in plants
Keywords
- Enrico Coen
- plant biology
- genes
- tissue shapes
- fruit flies
- jumping genes
- plant variation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: John Innes Centre
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