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Lisa, can you have a garden, you must do some weeding in your garden, right?
It's as if you don't even know me, Deborah.
I grow in all inclusive garden where all plants are wanted.
Okay, well, perhaps also you just don't feel like weeding.
Huh, yeah, there's that too.
Okay, well, we're going to learn about weeds and possibly about the weeds in your very own garden, Lisa.
So tell us who is our contestant today?
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I love that we rise up in the ranks and we beat teams as just a given, I like that very much. It sounds like you're just using Us Robots for your own glory.
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Sarp. You are going on the No -No list. Oh, no. Well, good luck and the competition, Sarp, I hope we hear good things that your missions are completed well and you beat the other team's and rise up in the ranks and get to the finals.
And be kind to your robots.
I will and be kind to your robots, absolutely.
So, Sarp, do you know a lot about weeds?
Do you have a garden, have you done any Weeding?
In Cincinnati, that was my old home.
I did a bunch of Weeding with my dad and every single time we saw the same type of weed hoe.
And I'm like, also that's what we'd look like.
But when I was researching, I was like, Oh, there are so many different kinds of weeds.
So that really opened up my mind.
Yes, it's important for parents to weed to their kids.
Ah, okay. Yeah, very nicely, sis.
You're welcome. Yes, that's true, weeding is fundamental.
Okay, we are going to bring out our experts.
Lisa, can you give us a little bit of a teenage, or some music for our weeds experts?
Okay, our first expert is Lynn Taznovsky.
Lynn, please introduce yourself to SARP.
Hi, SARP, I'm an expert, and I'm just gonna keep it simple.
I am a scientist who studies plants that are unwanted by everybody else.
Thank you very much, Lynn.
I relate to that. Which part, being a scientist?
of being unwanted by idea.
Oh, come on, Lisa. We all want to.
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And now, let's meet our next expert, Luke Seseto.
Luke, please introduce herself to Sarv.
Hey, Sarv, my name is Luke Seseto.
I am an archivist for the Wildlife Society.
And, like, Lynn, I work with...
and basic plants are plants that people don't seem to want.
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It's a tosy time! Thank you very much. That's when we put our experts on the hot seat while they answer Serp's questions.
Lisa, who should we put on the hot seat first?
I am choosing Linn, but I refuse to tell you why.
Oh, dear. I have been advised by my lawyer to not discuss it.
So, please do not ask me and please do not ask me.
Also, we will not ask you.
How about that? Also, do not ask me I cannot tell you why.
Okay, but we are going to ask Linn your first question.
So, Saarp please ask Lynn your first question.
How do you differentiate a weed versus a normal plant?
That's a great question.
First of all, sometimes weed scientists argue about the definition of a weed themselves.
And a lot of people are gonna say that a weed is just a plant that you don't want growing where it's growing.
But weeds are much more complicated than just being a plant out of place.
weeds have actually evolved to have certain characteristics that make them weedy.
So they're the product of evolutionary forces and they tend to have characteristics that mean they grow very fast. So they grow rapidly.
They produce a lot of seed.
They can grow in a lot of different environments.
And they can be very plastic.
So they don't just keep one form or shape all the time.
They can change and adapt very readily to the conditions that they're in.
But it comes down to weeds.
It's just being a little bit more aggressive, a little bit more competitive than other species.
They're actually shaped by the conditions that they evolve in over time.
Kinda like silly putty, right?
Yeah. Kinda like silly putty.
Silly putty's plastic and weeds are plastic.
they can grow and change and adapt really easily.
Well, also you can use weeds, and you can grow weeds into a ball, and you can bounce them just like silly buddy.
I'm not sure about that, but that would be really cool if you could.
Let's just assume I'm right.
We'll go with it. All right, Sarp, take it away with your next question.
This question is for both of you.
Can you describe a typical day at your job?
Who would like to start?
I can go first. My job's a pretty predictable one.
I'm an archivist, so I do most of my work in an office, I work at a desk, I spend most of my time on information management and interpreting documents, interpreting the information that comes into me.
I catalog things like the types of invasive plants, and I create root trees.
Nope, pun intended for known flora, and then I cross reference a lot determine migration patterns of regional weeds, because like Lin said, some plants are categorized as weeds depending on where they are.
If they're sort of quote unquote where they're supposed to be.
Um, but my real fun days are when I get to go out of the archives away from my computer and into classrooms and teach about plants and invasive species.
And what we can do about them.
Very cool. I know we can do about them.
We can take away their airplanes and their boats so they stop invading us.
That's the first thing we have to do.
The very first step.
Totally top of the list. Or we could say, hey, hey come on, just reason with them.
Yeah. If that doesn't work, see the first one about the plane.
I have a five -point plan.
No, that's so glad.
I can't wait to hear it.
OK, but in the meantime, Flynn, back to you.
So, SARP, I also spend a lot of time on the computer because I have to enter a lot of data from my research trials and I have to answer a lot of emails from growers who want questions about how to manage their weeds.
What I tend to do is the first thing I do is I go down to my greenhouse.
And I like to check on the different trials that I have going in my greenhouse because I'm doing a lot of competition studies right now looking at how weeds compete with different crop plants under controlled conditions.
And then sometimes I leave and I head out to the field because a half of my job is spend in the field with growers.
And I walk fields with them and I talk about the different weeds that are there and the different types of control strategies that they can use to get rid of them.
And then I probably end the day either guest lecturing in a class, teaching about weeds or going and meeting with our cooperative extension folk.
And giving presentations about the weeds that they're dealing with right there and then.
Hmm. Thank you. Back to you, spark.
This question is for Lynn.
What was the most interesting or cool thing that ever happened while you were doing your job?
So I was out doing some field studies when I was working in Georgia and I was working in Cotton fields and I was counting the different weeds that were in our treatments.
And I was driving back to my building from the field and I saw a turtle in the road and I wasn't gonna leave him in the road, So I actually stopped to pick up the turtle and I didn't realize that the fence that I was passing him through was electrified, and I really zapped myself and threw myself back on the ground.
That's terrible, did you get hurt?
Well, I was really, really embarrassed about that, and I probably threw that turtle and I don't know where he went.
Oh no, wait, I see him now.
He's still up in the sky!
is to there? Very good.
Okay. Back to you, sir.
You have some more questions.
Uh huh. Luke, this question is for you.
How do weeds threaten the country's natural flora?
Oh, they say, hey, you've been a good one.
So money. Oh, we're gonna beat you up.
Oh, new. That's terrible.
I don't think they do that.
Yeah. Watch out for weeds.
They're really tough.
They are actually they're very tough and very resistant and invasive.
Uh, but to answer your question, uh, there's a lot of ways.
There's a variety. There are weeds that belong to particular families or phylum like the Strangulatum, which can dominate food resources, and in danger the survival of other plant life in the area, the more native species.
And then of course, some like the dandelions aren't particularly threatening.
But plants can crowd out the quote -unquote desired plants and make it more difficult for them to grow and in some extreme cases for them to survive at all.
And of course, they're the noxious weeds, which can also be poisonous, some to humans, but some like the carnage symbiote can be toxic to other plants.
And, of course, the biggest possible threat to countries native flora is the overuse of herbicides and gardens and lawns can make it harder for other flora to thrive and then completely change the ecosystem.
Random. That's some serious stuff.
Back to you, Cyp. Luke, this question is for you.
What is the most common type of weed?
The most common type of weed, the answer to that depends on where you are.
For instance, in Nigeria, speargrass is massively prevalent, and really problematic, here.
Say, crabgrass, dandelions.
OK. When this question is for you.
Are there useful weeds?
Yes, so there's a lot of weeds that are actually edible yellow nuts edge You can eat the two bears and there are a lot of weeds believe it or not right now that are invading our different Natural habitats that were brought here and use because they had beautiful flowers or nice leaf color So we said you know what let's grow this as something that we can plant in our yard. And now that plant has escaped and become a weed.
Luke, this question is for you.
I read that each state in the US has a weeds list. Can you tell me about that?
Yeah sure, there are actually two different kinds of weeds listed depends on the list that you are referring to.
The USDA has a list of weeds common and acceptable to each state, so the weeds that are sort of part of the native species of that state are permissible to be planted there and then also to import or export only to certain other states.
And then of course, there is the Noxious weeds list, which is the list of weeds that the Department of Agriculture, in the federal seed act, has prohibited from planting state to states of certain states.
For instance, coastline, which is like we were just talking about the useful weeds, per slain is very rich in omega three fatty acids.
However, it a nutritional dynamo, it can take over in certain very hot regions.
So in the southwest of the United States, it is actually prohibited in Arizona.
There is one state in the United States where you are not allowed to introduce perslane.
So if they're so good at growing everywhere, and all of that, I guess, to both of you, does climate change help weeds grow or does that actually stop them from growing so quickly and in basically?
Well it very much depends on the weed species, some weeds are going to expand their range under climate change but some weeds may actually be a little bit more constricted in their environment so it's going to depend on the species.
But another thing that's going to happen is climate change is going to affect how well we can control weeds.
So if we have a situation where we have a lot of rain, maybe growers fields are going to be a lot more wet and they're not going to be able to get their tractors or their equipment in there to be able to cultivate the weeds out.
Or under very hot conditions some herbicides might not work as effectively.
So climate change can affect the plants themselves, but they can also affect the tools that we're going to use to control the weeds.
I see. So it's very multidimensional and multidlayered how it's gonna work.
Yes. There's also just the predictability of our growing seasons because weeds and invasive plants are so adaptable are so elastic and plastic, as she called them.
A lot of the crops and a lot of the plants that we depend on are not nearly as adaptable as plastic as a lot of invasive species are, which is going to make it very difficult for us to predict how our crops will continue to grow in the future due to growing seasons being changed due to our ecosystems being changed due to temperatures being inconsistent so, it's the more adaptable plant that tend to thrive in those kinds of environments.
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It really feels that way.
There's a lot of knowledge happening.
It's making my brain hurt a little bit, yeah.
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So do it again. Okay, it's time for the shorts on fire round when our experts have to answer as many questions as they can before time runs out.
Lisa will set a timer for the first expert and then start will ask questions until Lisa's timer sounds and then Lisa resets the timer for our next expert to do the same.
Experts, this is a fast -paced round.
You'll have to answer at a mile a minute.
Sarp, let's start with Lynn.
You can start asking your shorts on fire questions now.
Which weed would you used to make tea?
Dandelion. Name one way weed spread across lamb.
Seed's moving on equipment and trucks.
Factor fib, some weeds are good for the planet.
That's a fact. What kind of weed grow narrow leaves and sprout only one leaf from the seed pod That would be grasses.
What hooked weed inspired Velcro?
Oh my gosh, I can't remember.
I do know it though.
Which weed is a popular holiday plant that also lives off of water and nutrients of the trees it grows on.
It is mistletoe. Factor Fib.
Sea weed is a weed.
I know you want me to say shit but it depends.
We blow on the puff balls of what weed more we want to make a wish.
And decline again. What tool should I use to weed my garden?
You should use a how, that's what I use.
What is the federal act that allows the United States Secretary of Agriculture to call a plant a knock just weed?
I should know this, and I actually don't.
Sorry. That's all right, and we've come to one at the end of our time, that's time!
Hey, in terms of time, sir?
We're done. Okay, Lisa, will you kindly reset your timer?
Uh, sir? What do you think?
Should I do it? Yeah, I think you should.
All right, Starps says yes, I say yes.
Excellent, thank you so much, Lisa .Starp, you can now ask Luke your source on fire questions, now.
If you find four leaves on this lucky weed, which weed is it?
That would be a for leave clover.
What kind of weeds live for at least two years?
Perennials. During World War II, what kind of weed fluff will use to stuff like jackets?
Oh, uh. Um, um, um, uh, milkweed.
Which white -floared weed is also known as white...
wild carrot. Aaarghhh.
Oh, my gosh. Uh, that is...
Queen somebody, somebody, lace.
Queen somebody's lace.
That's correct. It's queen somebody.
She was a gray queen.
Yeah. Name a weed that can be eaten.
Uh, name a weed that can be eaten.
Oh, my god, mint. Perslane.
Who first recorded this on tumbling tumble weeds?
in 1934. I know that song.
That's the all rule along the, I have no idea.
I have a cute catbap.
What's an example of a weed that can't be killed by herbicides?
What is an example of a weed that come in dogberry?
Where do many of the non -native weeds in the United States come from?
Well, not surprisingly because of our huge shared land border Canada.
And that is time. That's all the time.
And apologies to everyone in Canada.
We're not attacking you.
Okay. That was very well done.
Okay. It's decision time.
Sarp must think about all the information he's heard today and decide which expert is really a flea bane of our existence.
Sarp, who is our big river?
I think it's Luke. Why do you think Luke is our favorite?
Because of many things actually.
Luke on that question with the mulch, he actually got that one correct I think, but Lin just added a lot more onto it and then when Lin said something in Luke, thinking he backed onto it, I expected him to add more and he just didn't.
And then during the shorts on Fire Round, he said that Milkweed was used to stuff Life jackets, milkweed doesn't have any stuffing.
Blue said think it doesn't and it has like these spiky leaves but no fluff.
Very interesting. I love how you've tracked all of this information and the way that they've answered the question.
So let us see will our weeds expert say to us now I am the weeds expert.
Sarp? I am the Weed expert.
Thank you so much. You did it, Sarp.
That is correct. Very good.
That's right. Lynn Sosnowski is a weed science expert at Cornell University.
She focuses on the control of unwanted plants in vegetable and fruit crops.
Well done Sarp. Okay.
That was tough. Time to do some fact checking.
Lynn, what were the facts that Luke shared?
that were more like poison hemlock.
Oh my gosh, I'm gonna tell you, I was so nervous, I didn't be track of them.
That's okay. That's all right.
How about the most recent one where Luke said that a lot of our weeds come from Canada, believe it or not, a lot of our non -native species have traveled with us when we migrated.
We brought a lot of species from Europe, but a lot of species have also come from Asia and other continents as well.
So they're not just showing their passports at the US -Canada border to get in.
That's right. Okay, let's take it back to Luke.
Why don't you tell us what lies did you tell that were as unwanted as weeds?
So, Sarp actually, I have a bone to pick with you because milkweed actually was used during World War II.
That was actually not a lie.
Let's see... I think during my answer about weed threatening a country's natural flora, I mentioned the Strangulatum, which I don't think that's a weed.
I don't know, they can fact check me out.
What kind of weed are we doing?
It sounded good though.
Nor is the carnage symbiote.
Oh no. It sounded good.
But carnage was in that venom movie that I saw when I came to the other day, but it sounded like a noxious weed.
It sure did, yeah. Yeah.
To my knowledge there aren't two weed's lists in the United States.
There's a noxious weed list. I don't know about the federal seed act is real but I don't know about the other one that I talked about perhaps for too long.
So, thanks can have their own weed list. Oh, let's see, the white -flower weed is a queen and lace.
I'm not sure if this is right.
You said weeds that could be eaten.
And what did you say?
What was your answer?
I said mint. Mint, is that a weed, min?
You know what? Hmm.
Some people will call it weedie because you can get out of and into gardens.
Interesting, okay, good to know.
Alright, also, just for your own information, the group that recorded the song tumbling tumbleweeds in 1934 where the sons of the pioneers, let's see an example of a weed that cannot be killed by herbicides.
Was that correct, also Lin?
No, don't. Don't bury is a character in a Shakespeare play.
Awww... What's up with that?
In my research, I did the thing that inspired Velcro were burrs.
That's correct. And you know what those burrs never got any money for it?
He totally stole their idea.
First after you get paid.
The Federal Act that allows United States Secretary of Agriculture to call a plan in noxious weed was the Federal noxious weed act of 1974.
Don't forget. One of my favorite noxious weed acts.
I'm gonna get kicked out of my society.
No, that's terrible.
I'm so sorry. And just a fun fact too, you covered it Lyn, but Mistletoe is a weed.
as you said and they live off of trees, right?
Yes they do. There's a whole group of plants that are parasitic higher plants and they live off of other plant species and mistletoe is one of them.
So many cool facts and that was really well done, Saab.
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