"Meet the GMO that could feed one billion people: C4 rice explained in 7 minutes"
C4 rice (http://c4rice.irri.org) is a genetically modified crop projected to save one billion people by 2025. It'll give us up to 50% more rice "for free" - much more rice will be grown, for the people who most need it, without any extra resources being used up. This video explains how C4 works and why it's able to make such an amazing improvement to rice, by doing a little tour of our research base at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org) in Los Banos, Philippines. We're very excited about C4 rice, and we hope you will be too! If you have any questions you can leave them below, or go on twitter and send them to either @RiceResearch or @hamishtodd1 (me!) Image credits: malnourished child: https://www.savethechildren.net/nutrition-growth-summit population: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/World-Population-1800-2100.svg/2000px-World-Population-1800-2100.svg.png corn: http://freebigpictures.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/corn-field.jpg Sugarcane: http://www.uppercrustindia.com/posts/199/Brand-New-Spin---Sugarcane.html Kranz anatomy: http://sydney.edu.au/science/biology/learning/plant_form_function/revision_modules/2003A_Pmodules/module1/1C9.shtml photosynthesis: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/172329-attempting-to-understand-the-most-important-chemical-reaction-on-the-planet-photosynthesis Purple sulfur bacteria: http://www.microbiologybook.org/mycology/mycology-2.htm Archaebacteria: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Halobacteria.jpg ATP synthase: http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/node/448 Rubisco: http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/101/motm.do?momID=11 entirity of time itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#mediaviewer/File:CMB_Timeline300_no_WMAP.jpg Ball and stick molecular models by Jynto and Ben Mills on wikipedia: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3-Phospho-D-glyceric-acid-3D-balls.png Rubisco animation: http://lammps.sandia.gov/movies.html Poisoned rice plant Robots with coffee: www.hizook.com http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8925078/Pictures-of-the-day-30th-November.html?image=6 Robot hug: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3958563/Robots-to-wash-pots-finds-socks-get-you-fit.html Will Smith image from the film I, Robot, distributed by warner bros. Baby-faced robot: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/robot-baby-diego-san Guy fixing robotic arm: http://www.abb.com/cawp/seitp202/e08b515d3e3acbf7c125790b00792144.aspx Plant phylogenetic tree: https://genomevolution.org/wiki/index.php/Plant_paleopolyploidy Sad cat: http://ghcorps.org/application-woes-or-be-nice-to-yourself/sad-cat/ Images of leaves and cross section provided by the C4 rice project Painting of fauna from 30 million years ago by Jay Matternes "ONE BILLION" image from "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" Jerry World image: http://twistedsifter.com/tag/basketball/ Bill and Melinda Gates: http://borgenproject.org/6-gates-foundation-end-poverty-quotes/ Warren Buffett: https://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2006/06/25/warren-buffett-giving-away-42-billion-how-much-to-barbados-abortion-advocates/
Comments
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actually we should kill people, not do more
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This deserves more attention
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Ever hear of the Green Revolution of 60 or so years ago? That was a technological fix which was supposed to Feed the World. But guess what? It didn't work. We've still got hunger. Turns out that hunger is not a technological problem - it's a political/economic problem.
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Monsanto is like The IRS.... or King Leopold II in The Congo....
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Has this been tested for 50 years?
This is a simple problem with all GMOs.
If there are no longitudinal studies who fucking knows what could happen to organism that eat it?!?
The plant can be stressed, nutrients go missing and bad things happen.
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Looking good - unless Greenpeace decides to do another search and destroy mission and tear up all the test plots again.
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I think people suffer from malnutrition and starvation because of corrupt fascist governments and corporately funded population control initiatives that seek to kill poor black and brown people more than anything. The world already has the capability and space to grow enough food from natural seed. The issue is the distribution. It is more a philosophical problem than a need for new fangled seeds... The other GMO seeds haven't helped this issue!
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The eternal enemy of mankind will stop at nothing to destroy God's perfect creation! At HUGE profits too- and huge losses to our natural habitat- but you didn't want to talk about that part I guess (which is the TRUE motivation for these evil seeds that ALWAYS compromise the health of people and our planet). Another thing, Nature wastes nothing- not oxygen or anything you mad scientists claim. there is a purpose for everything in nature. Perhaps you blind mice should look into oxygen starved leaves having an adverse affect on the human system a bit before jumping on your ego-maniac bandwagons and further poisoning your brothers and sisters.
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Perhaps scientists working on these types of GMO's should make a more conscious effort to present the differences between this type of genetic manipulation and the potentially hazardous herbicide/insecticide resistant GMO's that currently represent the lion's share of the GMO market.
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Some of the most expensive coffee in the world is made from cat poo you know.
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Nice job Hamish! And nice to see IRRI and your c4 again! Grtz your former neighboor.
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A hugely important project - good luck! (but as for the humour, don't give up the day job).
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