{"id":87863,"date":"2019-02-18T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/machine-learning-unlocks-plants-secrets"},"modified":"2019-02-18T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:23:36","slug":"machine-learning-unlocks-plants-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/machine-learning-unlocks-plants-secrets","title":{"rendered":"Machine learning unlocks plants\u2019 secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/machine-learning-unlocks-plants-secrets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plants are master chemists, and Michigan State University researchers have unlocked their secret of producing specialized metabolites.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the latest issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2019\/01\/22\/1817074116\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>, combined plant biology and machine learning to sort through tens of thousands of genes to determine which genes make specialized metabolites.<\/p>\n<p>Some metabolites attract pollinators while others repel pests. Ever wonder why deer eat tulips and not daffodils? It\u2019s because daffodils have metabolites to fend off the critters who\u2019d dine on them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/msutoday.msu.edu\/news\/2019\/machine-learning-unlocks-plants-secrets\/\">https:\/\/msutoday.msu.edu\/news\/2019\/machine-learning-unlocks-plants-secrets\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants are master chemists, and Michigan State University researchers have unlocked their secret of producing specialized metabolites. The research, published in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, combined plant biology and machine learning to sort through tens of thousands of genes to determine which genes make specialized metabolites. Some metabolites [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}