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A gene doesn't want anything, and there's no outside mechanism that selects which genes are best to preserve.

One out of every fifty of your genes is dedicated to it.

Genes that result in a greater variety of immunities may give offspring a major survival advantage.

We look at the transcriptome, which is just a term for a technology in which we look at the genes that are switched on or off, in response to drying.

Most genes will code for proteins, so we look at the proteome.

Lipids also act as signals to turn on genes.

If you mean, am I going to put resurrection plant genes into crops, your answer is yes.

But we're about to embark upon an extremely ambitious approach, in which we aim to turn on whole suites of genes that are already present in every crop.

And in order to do that I have to explain a little bit about how genes work.

So you probably all know that genes are made of double-stranded DNA.

If you unwind that DNA, you get genes.

We couple that to genes of interest and put that into a plant and see how the plant responds.

And we've used it to drive antioxidant genes from resurrection plants.

Why antioxidant genes?

After three weeks without watering, the ones with the genes do a hell of a lot better.

So I ask the question, are they using the same genes?

Or slightly differently phrased, are resurrection plants using genes evolved in seed desiccation tolerance in their roots and leaves?

Have they retasked these seed genes in roots and leaves of resurrection plants?

The answer is yes, that there is a core set of genes that are involved in both.

And I'm going to illustrate this very crudely for maize, where the chromosomes below the off switch represent all the genes that are required for desiccation tolerance.

So as maize seeds dried out at the end of their period of development, they switch these genes on.

Resurrection plants switch on the same genes when they dry out.

All modern crops, therefore, have these genes in their roots and leaves, they just never switch them on.

So what we're trying to do right now is to understand the environmental and cellular signals that switch on these genes in resurrection plants, to mimic the process in crops.

"Gene patents?" "Yes, you know, patents on human genes."

The company that obtained a patent on two genes associated with this condition developed a test to diagnose the syndrome.

There were literally thousands of patents on human genes.

Myriad held patents on two genes, the BRCA1 and the BRCA2 genes.

Women with certain mutations along these genes are considered to be at a significantly increased risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.

So in order to argue that what Myriad did was not an invention, and that isolated BRCA genes were products of nature, we had to explain a couple of basic concepts, like: What's a gene?

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