Clones, Carbon, and Climate Change: The Epigenetics of Oil Production

In this video from InnovATEBIO, Robert Martienssen explores oil production in plants and the broad introduction of high-performing palm clones that promise to reduce the land needed to meet world requirements for palm oil. Epigenetics and clones are a major component of this presentation. The history of oil production, the environmental issues associated with fossil fuels, biofuels that can replace fossil fuels, the environmental issues associated with palm oil production, the oil palm genome, oil palm hybrids, DNA methylation, duckweed genomes, duckweed oil, and climate change are highlighted. The video recording runs 57:46 minutes in length.