Eavesdropping on plant chatter

Amie Fornah Sankoh studies how viruses commandeer plant communication at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.
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Amie Fornah Sankoh sat in front of a tray of plants using a syringe to inject a virus into one of the leaves

Amie Fornah Sankoh is a postdoctoral plant biologist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St Louis, Missouri. Credit: Whitney Curtis for Nature

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I became deaf after a high malarial fever when I was three. I was living in Sierra Leone, but, at age 12, my parents sent me to the United States to be adopted by a family friend. Before learning American Sign Language at 15, I communicated in gestures and relied on advocates at school.

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Nature 623, 880 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03613-2

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  • Correction 27 November 2023: An earlier version of this story erroneously placed the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in Olivette.

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