Putting the pod in podcast

"I love coffee, I love tea. I love the Java Jive and it loves me."

As the song "Java Jive" faded in and out, plant pathologists Darin Eastburn and Cleo D'Arcy sat in front of a microphone and explained to listeners how people can spread plant diseases around the world.

It was Week 3 of the University of Illinois course "Plants, Pathogens and People," and students would learn, among other things, Sri Lanka was a major coffee producer until a disease called coffee rust wiped out the island's crop.

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