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

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Those are the three traits we want to change: more suberin, more roots, and the last one, deep roots. Then we want to cnmiobe all those traits in one pnlat, and we can do that easily and we will do it, and we are doing it actually, in the model plant, Arabidopsis, which allows us to do these experiments much faster than we can do in another big plant. And when we find that we have platns where traits all add up and we can get more of them, more subrien in those plants, we're going to move it all — we can and we we will, we're beginning to do this — move it to crop plants. And I'll tell you why we're picking crop plants to do the work for us when I get to that part of my talk.

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Those are the three traits we want to change: more suberin, more roots, and the last one, deep roots. Then we want to _______ all those traits in one _____, and we can do that easily and we will do it, and we are doing it actually, in the model plant, Arabidopsis, which allows us to do these experiments much faster than we can do in another big plant. And when we find that we have ______ where traits all add up and we can get more of them, more _______ in those plants, we're going to move it all — we can and we we will, we're beginning to do this — move it to crop plants. And I'll tell you why we're picking crop plants to do the work for us when I get to that part of my talk.

Solution

  1. suberin
  2. plant
  3. combine
  4. plants

Original Text

Those are the three traits we want to change: more suberin, more roots, and the last one, deep roots. Then we want to combine all those traits in one plant, and we can do that easily and we will do it, and we are doing it actually, in the model plant, Arabidopsis, which allows us to do these experiments much faster than we can do in another big plant. And when we find that we have plants where traits all add up and we can get more of them, more suberin in those plants, we're going to move it all — we can and we we will, we're beginning to do this — move it to crop plants. And I'll tell you why we're picking crop plants to do the work for us when I get to that part of my talk.

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