Hello, my name is Eric Patterson. I'm a scientist and a botonist here at Michigan State University. And like any botonist, I have a favorite plant.I've spent the last 15 years of my life studying this plant. I've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars sequencing and assembling its genome. And I've grown hundreds of this plant in the laboratory doing wicked science experiments on it.I talk about this plant any chance I get like today. So, thank you for being here. So, what is this plant.Is it some rare flowe ...