Matt Powers discusses how microbes shape environmental changes and genetic expression, connecting soil health to plant biology and human digestion. The conversation explores why soil, plants, and gut biomes work as an interconnected system.
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So they've detected this change happening. And I suspect these microbes have the sense of taste or smell that allows them to have predictive behavior, to anticipate the changes in the overall environment of the microscopic space they're in. Which makes sense. Environment determines genetic expression. Change the environment and everything else changes, doesn't it? Yes, everything changes. Yes. Wow. All right, let's go. And it's within and without. So with us, it's. It's. We get. We get information from outside, but it's our. Our gut biome that is literally within us, changing our own genetic expression as well. So it's within and without. And these microbes are in this chain, this feedback loop. So the E. Coli that is commensal in our plants is also in our gut. And so it's. Where did it come from? Well, it starts in the soil, it's in the compost, it's inside the plant, and it's inside us. It's actually an information feedback loop with the world around us.