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Fermentation gives rise to multispecies interactions of bacteria and fungi, plants, insects, animals and humans: in other words, whole ecosystems.
Because yeasts will ferment basically any plant sugars, ancient peoples made alcohol from whatever crops and plants grew where they lived.
All human life, all life, depends on plants.
It doesn't matter whether you live in a small African village, or you live in a big city, everything comes back to plants in the end: whether it's for the food, the medicine, the fuel, the construction, the clothing, all the obvious things; or whether it's for the spiritual and recreational things that matter to us so much; or whether it's soil formation, or the effect on the atmosphere, or primary production.
Damn it, even the books here are made out of plants.
All these things, they come back to plants.
Now plants are under threat.
And people like us want to do things that destroy plants, and their habitats.
And plants sometimes find it rather difficult to move because there might be cities and other things in the way.
So if all human life depends on plants, doesn't it make sense that perhaps we should try to save them?
And I want to tell you about a project to save plants.
And the way that you save plants is by storing seeds.
Because seeds, in all their diverse glory, are plants' futures.
All the genetic information for future generations of plants are held in seeds.
They have thousands of people all over the world tagging places where those plants are said to exist.
And then we grow these things, and we tell people, back in the countries where these seeds have come from, "Look, actually we're not just storing this to get the seeds later, but we can give you this information about how to germinate these difficult plants."
Twenty-five percent of all the world's plants, by 2020.
We have thousands of collections that have been sent out all over the world: drought-tolerant forest species sent to Pakistan and Egypt; especially photosynthetic-efficient plants come here to the United States; salt-tolerant pasture species sent to Australia; the list goes on and on.
Some of these plants, like the ones on the bottom to the left of your screen, they are down to the last few remaining members.
And what I mean by that is that, by and large, plants in the open ocean are microscopic, and they are much more abundant than we realize.
These are tiny plants and animals that come in a variety of shapes and sizes and colors and metabolisms.
These plants, several hundred million years old.
We've got four plants.
And the very first day that this fellow, John Allen, walked in, to spend a couple of days in there with all the plants and animals and bacteria that we'd put in there to hopefully keep him alive, the doctors were incredibly concerned that he was going to succumb to some dreadful toxin, or that his lungs were going to get choked with bacteria or something, fungus.
We were growing plants like crazy.
We were taking their biomass, storing them in the basement, growing plants, going around, around, around, trying to take all of that carbon out of the atmosphere.
And the legacy of that is a system that we were designing: an entirely sealed system to grow plants to grow on Mars.
And some queens that survived the winter fell victim to the threats of spring, such as carnivorous plants, birds, and manmade pesticides.
Some bacteria consumed other bacteria, gaining their power to turn oxygen into energy, becoming the precursors of animals and plants.
On land, plants became trees, growing massive or spreading their spores only once before dying.
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