Plant endophytes as a platform for discovery-based undergraduate science education
Plant endophytes as a platform for discovery-based undergraduate science education
- Nature Chemical Biology, 3(7), p.356, 2007 .
We have initiated an undergraduate research program that includes a two-week expedition to the Amazonian rainforest and a ten-week summer research experience. Our objective is the discovery of (i)novel microbes that are endophytically associated with plants and (ii)the potentially biologically active molecules that these microbes produce. Although the foreign travel is a strong enticement for student participation, we have found that the opportunity to own and independently direct their research program is key to program success. Intensive...
ENDOPHYTE
MICROBIAL DIVERSITY
MICROORGANISM
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY
MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE
NONHUMAN
PHYTOCHEMISTRY
PRIORITY JOURNAL
RAIN FOREST
REVIEW
SCIENCE
We have initiated an undergraduate research program that includes a two-week expedition to the Amazonian rainforest and a ten-week summer research experience. Our objective is the discovery of (i)novel microbes that are endophytically associated with plants and (ii)the potentially biologically active molecules that these microbes produce. Although the foreign travel is a strong enticement for student participation, we have found that the opportunity to own and independently direct their research program is key to program success. Intensive...
ENDOPHYTE
MICROBIAL DIVERSITY
MICROORGANISM
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY
MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE
NONHUMAN
PHYTOCHEMISTRY
PRIORITY JOURNAL
RAIN FOREST
REVIEW
SCIENCE