86 Dr. Priyadarshini Chakrabarti - The Secret Life of Bee Nutrition
PolliNation Podcast
English - February 18, 2019 07:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 128 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Education Self-Improvement bees healthofpollinators landmanagers pollination pollinator researchers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Listen in to learn the importance of sterols in honeybee health, why they are so important, and the research Dr. Priyadarshini Chakrabarti has done on them.
"[Sterols] are building blocks of cellular membranes. That is why we are trying to focus on them, because without these sterols, you would basically have a dead bee." - Dr. Priyadarshini Chakrabarti.
Learn more about this episode of PolliNation at http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/pollinationpodcast/2019/02/18/dr-priyadarshini-chakrabarti/