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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.
What we're trying to do very rapidly is to repeat what nature did in the evolution of resurrection plants some 10 to 40 million years ago.
My plants and I thank you for your attention.
Consider starch and fiber, both polysaccharides, both derived from plants, both composed of hundreds to thousands of monosaccharides joined together, but they're joined together differently, and that changes the effect they have on your body.
In starches, which plants mostly store for energy in roots and seeds, glucose molecules are joined together by alpha linkages, most of which can be easily cleaved by enzymes in your digestive tract.
We also refine naturally occurring radioactive ores to fuel nuclear power plants.
These higher temperatures are having an effect on animals, plants, people, ecosystems.
And already, land-based plants and animals are now moving towards the poles at an average rate of 15 feet per day.
All of these coal plants were proposed in the next 10 years and canceled.
All of these existing coal plants were retired.
All of these coal plants have had their retirement announced.
Bacteria, single-celled organisms called archaea, plants, and even other animals can all survive drying up.
They ambled through the forests and savannas using their strong arms and sharp claws to uproot plants and climb trees, grazing on grasses, leaves, and prehistoric avocados.
Real and imaginary plants, floating castles, bathing women, astrology diagrams, zodiac rings, and suns and moons with faces accompany the text.
The first question we should probably ask is, how would we make our plants cold-tolerant?
The next question we should ask is, how do we make our plants drought-tolerant?
By borrowing genes for anti-freeze protein from fish and genes for drought tolerance from other plants like rice and then stitching them into the plants that need them, we now have plants that can tolerate most droughts and freezes.
So why would we want to change the genetic makeup of plants for space?
So we can use synthetic biology to bring highly engineered plants with us, but what else can we do?
So instead of programming computers, we're using things to program viruses or retroviruses or proteins or DNA or RNA or plants or animals, or a whole series of creatures.
So when you go to these all-natural, organic markets, you're really going to a place where people have been changing the lifecode of plants for a long time.
It turns out to be this incredibly powerful way of changing viruses, of changing plants, of changing animals, perhaps even of evolving ourselves.
Because we've built unnatural plants, unnatural animals, we can feed about seven billion people.
Some people will choose to alter plants but not animals.
We began to see that clean technologies, in particular renewable energy technologies, began to drop price and increase in capacity, to the point where today we are already building concentrated solar power plants that have the capacity to power entire cities, to say nothing of the fact of what we are doing on mobility and intelligent buildings.
It's that you need to go to a place that's a desert today, a place that doesn't have too many plants covering up the rocks, and a place where erosion is always exposing new bones at the surface.
This is the stuff that gives plants their shape and texture.
The region’s bamboo plants produce massive amounts of fruit just once every few decades.
These supercharged carbon recyclers, like plants, serve as the natural recyclers in their ecosystems where they thrive.
Even simple things like shaded places or fruit plants or drinking water inside the city can make a difference in how people feel towards the place, and whether they consider it a generous place that gives, a place that's worth keeping, contributing to, or whether they see it as an alienating place, full of seeds of anger.
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