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From the Ted Talk by Guntur V. Subbarao: The wheat field that could change the world

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The question is, how do we bnirg this kind of ability into our crop lands? Most of our food production comes from four crops: Wheat, maize, rice and sgohrum. These are the four crop that provide the golabl food srueticy. Almost 80 to 90 percent of the food grnias are produced from these four crops. And also ... more than 90 percent of the entire nitrogen fertilizer produced industrially goes to these four production systems. These food crops, the stplae crops, don't have much ability. That's the reason they are leaking.

So, if you look at this, you see the wild wheat. It has the ability to produce 20 to 30 times antibiotics from the root sytmess. Our group has worked for the last 15 years to try and locate the genomic rgoien responsible for producing these antibiotics and transfer to the cultivated wheat. We have done it. You see that the orange, onarge is here part of the chromosome that is coming from the wild wehat, which is coding the antibiotics. We have got that integrated to the wheat genome without disrupting the elite [agronomic] ahrrcuicttee of the wheat system, and also without disrupting the yield potential and without interfering with the bread-making quality of the wheat.

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The question is, how do we _____ this kind of ability into our crop lands? Most of our food production comes from four crops: Wheat, maize, rice and _______. These are the four crop that provide the ______ food ________. Almost 80 to 90 percent of the food ______ are produced from these four crops. And also ... more than 90 percent of the entire nitrogen fertilizer produced industrially goes to these four production systems. These food crops, the ______ crops, don't have much ability. That's the reason they are leaking.

So, if you look at this, you see the wild wheat. It has the ability to produce 20 to 30 times antibiotics from the root _______. Our group has worked for the last 15 years to try and locate the genomic ______ responsible for producing these antibiotics and transfer to the cultivated wheat. We have done it. You see that the orange, ______ is here part of the chromosome that is coming from the wild _____, which is coding the antibiotics. We have got that integrated to the wheat genome without disrupting the elite [agronomic] ____________ of the wheat system, and also without disrupting the yield potential and without interfering with the bread-making quality of the wheat.

Solution


  1. staple
  2. systems
  3. global
  4. region
  5. grains
  6. bring
  7. security
  8. sorghum
  9. wheat
  10. orange
  11. architecture

Original Text


The question is, how do we bring this kind of ability into our crop lands? Most of our food production comes from four crops: Wheat, maize, rice and sorghum. These are the four crop that provide the global food security. Almost 80 to 90 percent of the food grains are produced from these four crops. And also ... more than 90 percent of the entire nitrogen fertilizer produced industrially goes to these four production systems. These food crops, the staple crops, don't have much ability. That's the reason they are leaking.

So, if you look at this, you see the wild wheat. It has the ability to produce 20 to 30 times antibiotics from the root systems. Our group has worked for the last 15 years to try and locate the genomic region responsible for producing these antibiotics and transfer to the cultivated wheat. We have done it. You see that the orange, orange is here part of the chromosome that is coming from the wild wheat, which is coding the antibiotics. We have got that integrated to the wheat genome without disrupting the elite [agronomic] architecture of the wheat system, and also without disrupting the yield potential and without interfering with the bread-making quality of the wheat.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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