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Plants use the energy from sunlight to transform carbon dioxide and water from the environment into glucose and oxygen.
These green food chains start with living plants at their base.
Living plants shed dead body parts: fallen leaves, broken branches, and even underground roots.
Many plants are lucky enough to go their whole lives without being eaten, eventually dying and leaving remains.
What happens to plants also happens to all other organisms up the food chain: some are eaten alive, but most are eaten only when they're dead and rotting.
Many other animals, foxes, sharks, beetles, that butterfly we mentioned earlier, have this kind of symmetry, as do some plants like orchid flowers.
This symmetry also appears in plants, as you can see for yourself by slicing through an apple horizontally.
It's cheaper in many cases, and definitely more sustainable than our dependance on traditional power plants that use resources like coal, which will eventually run out.
So why don't we replace these traditional plants with solar energy?
That's where traditional power plants come in because to correct for any fluctuations in these solar powered plants, extra electricity from traditional sources always needs to be available.
But then why aren't these tradtional power plants just used as a backup, instead of us humans depending on them as our main sources of energy?
Instead, to accommodate these fluctuations, some extra electricity from traditional power plants is always being produced.
For this reason, a lot of researchers are interested in forcasting the motion and formation of clouds through satellite images or cameras that look up at the sky to maximize the energy from solar power plants and minimize energy waste.
I believe that the secret to producing extremely drought-tolerant crops, which should go some way to providing food security in the world, lies in resurrection plants, pictured here, in an extremely droughted state.
You might think that these plants look dead, but they're not.
Given that plants are at the base of the food chain, most of that's going to have to come from plants.
Plants can't.
It's widely believed that the evolution of desiccation-tolerant seeds allowed the colonization and the radiation of flowering plants, or angiosperms, onto land.
There is a solution: resurrection plants.
These plants can lose 95 percent of their cellular water, remain in a dry, dead-like state for months to years, and give them water, they green up and start growing again.
How do these plants dry without dying?
And I work on a variety of different resurrection plants, shown here in the hydrated and dry states, for a number of reasons.
One of them is that each of these plants serves as a model for a crop that I'd like to make drought-tolerant.
The other reason for looking at a number of plants, is that, at least initially, I wanted to find out: do they do the same thing?
Now, this is important because plants are stuck in the ground.
And we've used it to drive antioxidant genes from resurrection plants.
My research has shown that there's considerable similarity in the mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in seeds and resurrection plants.
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?
Resurrection plants switch on the same genes when they dry out.
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