In Season 1 of The Taproot, co-hosts Liz Haswell and Ivan Baxter dug beneath the surface of a manuscript to understand how scientific publications in plant biology are made. This season we will be talking to five guests who have succeeded despite facing huge challenges--challenges like resisting the pressure to relocate, taking time off to raise a family, facing gender discrimination, recovering from big mistakes, and being targeted by anti-science activists.\n\nSHOW NOTES:\nTaproot in the News \nhttp://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/2-st-louis-plant-scientists-use-podcast-dig-deep-struggles-research#stream/0\n\nhttps://www.gdcb.iastate.edu/lawrence-dill-discusses-grad-school-paper-taproot-plantae-podcast\n\nhttps://artsci.wustl.edu/ampersand/bar-talk-haswell-hosts-new-science-podcast\n\nhttps://source.wustl.edu/2017/08/listening-in/\n\nhttps://aspb.org/newsletter/archive/2017/NovDec17.pdf\n\n@taprootpodcast\n@ehaswell\n@baxtertwi\ntaproot@plantae.org