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And do you really want the heat of the Sun or a radioactive nuclear plant inside of your body?
You've probably seen signs like this that tell you that the shrubbery and the highway median and the local golf course is being watered with water that used to be in a sewage treatment plant.
Because once we build the first few water recycling systems close to the sewage treatment plant, we have to build longer and longer pipe networks to get that water to where it needs to go.
This picture shows you the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western hemisphere that's currently being built north of San Diego.
Compared to the seawater desalination plant that was built in Santa Barbara 25 years ago, this treatment plant will use about half the energy to produce a gallon of water.
But in real-life terrestrial ecosystems, less than 10% of plant matter is eaten while it's still alive.
All of these uneaten, undigested, and dead plant parts, that 90% of terrestrial plant matter?
Who would have thought that this plant with round leaves, inflated stems, and showy, lavender flowers would cause such havoc in these communities.
The plant is known as water hyacinth and its botanical name, Eichhornia crassipes.
Interestingly, in Nigeria, the plant is also known by other names, names associated with historical events, as well as myths.
In some places, the plant is called Babangida.
In parts of Nigeria in the Niger Delta, the plant is also known as Abiola.
In the southwestern part of Nigeria, the plant is known as Gbe'borun.
And in the Igala-speaking part of Nigeria, the plant is known as A Kp'iye Kp'oma, And when you hear that, you think of death.
I personally had my encounter with this plant in the year 2009.
It was the use of the plant for handicrafts.
Because it's impossible for an employee at a coal fired or a nuclear plant to turn a knob to produce more or less electricity depending on how many clouds there are in the sky.
And of course the roots are required for hydration of that plant.
Annuals make up the bulk of our plant food supplies.
Wheat, rice and maize form 95 percent of our plant food supplies.
There are only 135 flowering plant species that can do this.
So I undertook what we call a systems biology approach in order to get a comprehensive understanding of desiccation tolerance, in which we look at everything from the molecular to the whole plant, ecophysiological level.
For example we look at things like changes in the plant anatomy as they dried out and their ultrastructure.
And then use all of that to try and understand how the plant copes with its natural environment.
If you mean, am I going to put resurrection plant genes into crops, your answer is yes.
It's wound very tightly into chromosomes that are present in every cell of your body or in a plant's body.
We couple that to genes of interest and put that into a plant and see how the plant responds.
In the study that I'm going to talk to you about, my collaborators used a drought-induced promoter, which we discovered in a resurrection plant.
The plant itself senses drought.
Justice Kagan likened isolating DNA to extracting a medicinal plant from the Amazon.
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