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The next agricultural revolution: a ‘bionic leaf’ that could help feed the world
kurzweilai.net ^
| 4/3/2017
| Kurtzweil AI Network
Posted on 04/04/2017 10:02:00 AM PDT by unlearner
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Fascinating developments in agricultural science.
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:02:00 AM PDT
by
unlearner
To: unlearner
This can’t be right, carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:05:50 AM PDT
by
Pietro
To: unlearner
[[leaf that uses bacteria, sunlight, water, and air to make fertilizer right in the soil where crops are grown.]]
Oh goody- Peas that poop
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:06:02 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: unlearner
Kudzu does the same thing (fixes nitrogen from the air).
What could go wrong?
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:06:12 AM PDT
by
wrench
To: unlearner
Are we talking about GMO’s?
To: unlearner
If it ever reaches the stage of commercialization, this will be attacked by pretty much every "green" organization and self-appointed guardian of "nature." They will do everything in their power to stop it and see that it never gets out of the laboratory.
In fact, I'll bet they even try to stop research along these lines.
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:08:27 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Liberals think in propaganda)
To: unlearner
If you plowed the damned Kudzu under wouldn’t it have the same effect, breaking down to the nutrients and fiber??
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:12:11 AM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: yawningotter
How far will 6 million dollars get?
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:13:06 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: JimRed
I heard that kudzu is not all that hardy of a plant. When you cut it back, it doesn’t come back like most indigenous plants. It does nicely if not disturbed, however.
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:16:17 AM PDT
by
Mr. Douglas
(Best. Election. EVER!)
To: JimRed
IF you could get the Kudzu out of the lakes, rivers and streams, we could all take our boats out again without fear of the krud getting stuck in our motors. Our dogs could go swimming without getting tangled in the stuff and drowning. Kids too.
If, if,if. If my aunt had wheels, she’d be a taxi.
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:32:33 AM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: unlearner
They’ve already got a nitrogen-fixing (read “fertilizer-producing”) plant. It’s called “soybeans.” Corn depletes nitrogen; beans replace it. That’s why you rotate crops.
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:34:20 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: unlearner
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:35:25 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: unlearner
Does this process cause the plant to become inedible?
The fertilizer aspect causes me to wonder.
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:36:03 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
To: Pietro
"
This cant be right, carbon dioxide is a pollutant."
Indeed.
Just don't tell that to plants.
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:54:16 AM PDT
by
rxsid
(HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
To: rxsid
Just don't tell that to plants. Just give 'em this.....It's what plants crave....
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04/04/2017 10:56:57 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:57:46 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Ex Scientia Tridens)
To: unlearner
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:58:04 AM PDT
by
wyowolf
(Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
To: unlearner
"
Fascinating developments in agricultural science."
It sure is.
However, the lib's would disagree...because it's GMO.
They are against this type of advancement that would benefit the poorest of the world the most.
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posted on
04/04/2017 10:59:15 AM PDT
by
rxsid
(HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
To: unlearner
poorer countries in the emerging worldGood grief. They don't need this when they still haven't grasped the notion of digging a water well and not pooping in it or their little ones having AIDS because they can't keep it in their pants.
Zero cost soil improvement is crop rotation, blood and bone meal and dung. Of course, they'd have to have a work ethic first so it's all mute.
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posted on
04/04/2017 11:09:07 AM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: unlearner
OK. First, it’s not a leaf. “The device is made from silicon, electronics and catalysts...” Second, it requires some system to store the hydrogen. Then it requires a specific kind of bacteria that uses the stored hydrogen to make a “bioplastic” and a growth medium that has some sort of metered hydrogen release system. Then, this bacteria has to be isolated and applied to the soil, where it fixes nitrogen using the stored “bioplastic”.
You could save all those steps by just genetically engineering known nitrogen-fixing bacteria so they work with more food crops.
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posted on
04/04/2017 11:31:47 AM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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