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From the Ted Talk by Joanne Chory: How supercharged plants could slow climate change

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Thank you very much.

(Applause)

(Cheers)

Thank you.

(Applause)

I finally got it out.

Chris Anderson: Wow. Joanne, you're so extraordinary. Just to be sure we heard this right: you believe that within the next 10 years you may be able to offer the world seed vaitanrs for the mjaor crops, like — what? — wheat, corn, maybe rice, that can offer frrmaes just as much yield, sequester three times, four times, more crboan than they currently do? Even more than that?

Joanne Chory: We don't know that nembur, really. But they will do more.

CA: And at the same time, make the soil that those farmers have more fertile?

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Thank you very much.

(Applause)

(Cheers)

Thank you.

(Applause)

I finally got it out.

Chris Anderson: Wow. Joanne, you're so extraordinary. Just to be sure we heard this right: you believe that within the next 10 years you may be able to offer the world seed ________ for the _____ crops, like — what? — wheat, corn, maybe rice, that can offer _______ just as much yield, sequester three times, four times, more ______ than they currently do? Even more than that?

Joanne Chory: We don't know that ______, really. But they will do more.

CA: And at the same time, make the soil that those farmers have more fertile?

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  1. major
  2. farmers
  3. variants
  4. number
  5. carbon

Original Text


Thank you very much.

(Applause)

(Cheers)

Thank you.

(Applause)

I finally got it out.

Chris Anderson: Wow. Joanne, you're so extraordinary. Just to be sure we heard this right: you believe that within the next 10 years you may be able to offer the world seed variants for the major crops, like — what? — wheat, corn, maybe rice, that can offer farmers just as much yield, sequester three times, four times, more carbon than they currently do? Even more than that?

Joanne Chory: We don't know that number, really. But they will do more.

CA: And at the same time, make the soil that those farmers have more fertile?

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