I sowed carrot in my field before the summer and after 35 days summer started and underground water declined. Due to insufficient of water I was not able to water the carrot field for 60 days, the plants started to dry after 30 days and the next 30 days it totally lost all its leaves. Then suddenly rain came and suddenly it produced new leaves and after a month I was able to harvest 12 tons per acre! Usually I was getting 15 tons. Even though less yield I got good rates. Drought tolerant crops already exists! We need just to identify them!

Wow it's refreshing to see a TED talk about a topic that actually matters. I think this kind of work is extremely important for our future, but it's only the beginning. Along with drought resistance, we should have some sort of mechanism by which plants could feed from seawater (really meaning water other than the one we drink), filter out the salts and keep on going. Great job!!!

Great Ted talk about one of mankind's greatest challenges for the next 50 years.

WE JUST GOTTA STOP FUCKIN.

For once a video where GMO's aren't the devil.. GMO tech is great, it depends on how the tech is applied that matters

We have no problem producing food for the whole world. The problem lies in that we are very wasteful with our produce and resources. 30% of grown food don't make it to supermarket because there is a slight blemish or slightly distorted shape. And 40% of food in the supermarket rots because no one bought it. There are tonnes of rice, apples, oranges and other commodities that are discarded and wasted because they simply didn't meet the current market price. Go to any bakery shop and see how many loaf of bread are discarded because they haven't been bought. 50% of discarded food goes back to landfill, 25% gets donated to charity, 25% goes to compost. Go to any middle-class home and you will find 30% of food in their fridge gets thrown away. Go to any restaurant and you will find 25% of their food are thrown away. Go to any grocery store and you will find 10% of canned food expired and will be thrown away.

Awesome lecture, thanks TED & Ms. Jill Fallant, indeed we need more lectures like this...

Finally some real research for the better of mankind. More Please!

One of the most 'Spiritual' talks on Life. Thank you Madam

Your research gives me a feeling that we have really messed up with the nature and people need more than talks to understand it.

Jill Farrant and her team will prevent food wars and strarving in the near future, hope you will make it work

2 minutes in and wondering if it will somehow be about feminism

loved the way the plants Thanked ppl at the end of the talk :D . All the best for your vision :)

i haven't watched this all the way yet, but resurrection plants require the production of the sugar trehalose... not sure how she proposes getting our food crops to produce enough trehalose to be able to resurrect. well watched it.. and yes it looks like she's talking about the expression of trehalose transgenes... smart idea... those pathways would exist in the seeds, so the plants would already have sequences for trehalose production... very good insight... definitely not something i had considered... and timely... roughly 70-80% of fresh water use goes to agriculture. even modest improvements in this area will have drastic impacts on our fresh water demands. Regardless of any personal feelings on this topic, in the end It is scientists and engineers like this women who will save this planet, and our species.

What an amazing talk!

a great talk, very hopeful, thank you

So clever, well done Jill

great video and well presented talk

Amazing talk and great idea.

Personally, I prefer when TED talks involve scientific lectures like these instead of lectures that concern social justice-related topics. It's usually hard to pull off an effective TED Talk about social justice, since the TED community generally has a negative reaction towards them.

In this fascinating talk, Molecular Biologist Jill Farrant gives very intriguing details about how to 'resurrect the plants" to feed the ever-growing world population. The Governments all over the world should carefully study this method and try to adopt it before facing the crisis situation. Highly recommended for the students of Botany, policy-makers and research scientists of molecular biology.

The time lapse is just WOW....if this can be done Africa's food problem will be solved.

Thank you!

thank you

Such a common thing tackling a problem by adapting to it, instead of trying to solve it. Wouldn't be better to reduce the growing, arid areas of the world by regenerating ecosystems? It may be expensive, as all that research is, but it will be a better solution.

Perhaps this concept will work well. It seems to me safer to find inexpensive ways to desalinate water for the short term, capture and sequester large amounts of CO2 for the long term.

Very good speach.

That is cool I can't wait.

It seems to me what we really need is a new way of farming altogether. Aquaponics uses a fraction of the water normal agriculture uses with the added benefit of producing both fish and nutrient rich vegetation. It requires specialized knowledge, sure, but it's still in its early stage of development and advancements will only fool-proof the process. On top of that, hydroponics and aeroponics are advancing rather rapidly with aeroponics requiring the least amount of water. I think using water efficiently will be more beneficial, but perhaps these drought-resistant crops will have niche applications.

Maaan...I have enjoyed this Ted Talk. She was confidence presenter with great knowledge... Wishing you success in your study..God bless u.Thanks..

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Sadly, most major American cities throw away that 70% you're looking for via the restaurant industry.

Can I translate and write rabic subtitles directly using KZfaq?

70% of all crops grown go to waste due to: synthetic farming (accelerated scenesence), loss in transportation, thrown away in the store so only gorgeous fruits/veggies are sold and of course spoilage at home.

the challenge is going to be figuring out why all these humans are randomly dieing after eating in a market saturated with GM crops.

GOOD TALK MADAM

Absolutely amazing and important. Does anyone else think we need to tackle population explosion as well so this isn't a single-pronged attack to these issues?

i dont understand all of your talk. Can i have full your subtitles?Thanks

The only thing missing from this talk is the fact that raising animals as livestock is the reason for all of our issued in agriculture, world hunger, water, and sustainability issues. Plant based diet is a diet to save the planet and ourselves.

Anything about water plants?

This isn't going to really help the true problem though; the real problem will be rainfall and fruiting. If a plant survives a small drought, that's all fine and good....but if it is stunted in growth, it may not grow much fruit in the end, or worse, may not grow any harvestable fruit by the time the growing season is over. On top of that, if a plant is fruiting while the drought occurs, the fruit will probably die or won't grow as well, or could even do other weird things like becoming more pulpy or thicker skinned. In the end, these will not only make for bad tasting fruit, it could also lack in nutrition. So a better solution it seems, is to make sure there is more water, even if it must be pumped from the ocean. We as a species, need to solve the water problem, and create massive desalination plants automated and run on solar energy. Costly at first, cheap in the long run. We have to realize that the plants we grow today, are designed around growing larger quantities with more flavor; they're generally much more brittle than their ancestors. Sure we add some tolerances for things like diseases, sometimes sacrifice flavor for yield.....but what kind of future is it where we sacrifice flavor? I'd say the better solution is to prevent from having soo many mouths to feed in the first place, rather than to be brought down by over population....otherwise we'll all end up eating tasteless blocks of food substance while billions of people choke the world.

It would be so cool, if we could actually decode the DNA language, so we can actually write code ourselves. There are decompilers for binary code. Maybe we can do something similar for DNA sometime in the future.

Seed selection is better than genetical modification with uncertain risks.

This is probably the worse place to suggest something like this, but what if you tried implementing bamboo's leaf-rolling strategy to conserve water on a maize plant? Both are monocots, if that helps.

What is the adverse effect on humans or animals that eat these crops?

She beat me to this idea before I could even graduate. I blame feminism

It's like science can actually solve our problems or something. Really great talk.

how in the flowering stage,

I'll invest my money into agriculture for now 70% is a large number

At 1:50 Russia is like, "Haha, you guys are stuffed!"

So where do i buy seeds for the drought tolerant varieties of crops?

i for one want my crops EXTRA modified plz.

Nice

Coooll!

Imagine if you made humans able to survive dehydration like this, people would find actual mummies and bring you back in 2000 years

Neat! :)

So how to use it? If there was seeds that responded very quickly to water, we could water them and harvest. In big dessert areas there isn't sufficient rain, I mean for years. But if we water them, that might be all they need during a short period, enough to harvest. Or is there a better way?

Can't wait to get home garden plants gmoed into resurrection plants.

Promising and exciting research and likely to be the future in agriculture especially in places that are desert drought inflicted. With a predicted 11 billion final human population we will need to take advantage of these technologies., Just one proviso they will need to properly research.trial the benefits and possible toxicity of the new crops.

Nice to see female scientists actually talking about important science instead of how oppressed women are. TED, more women like THIS, please!

My thoughts are, do resurrection plants, since genetically modified, produce unwanted enzymes or other things that are problematic to our health?

0:51 2008? that data is 8 years old. Things are better now.

Or develop to grow saltwater tolerant crops and irrigate w sea water. Kelp at least is one.

We and Canada have the Great Lakes

Where can I get these drought resistance seeds, the climate where I live has high rainfall but low ground water level so It is difficult to cultivate during winter and summer only rice is cultivated

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Ever wonder how much water is trapped in bottles, cans, and pipes?

wow

tot aan de top van de atmosfeer bedoel ik maar als dus steeds minder vocht steeds hoger is en dus lucht bovenin helemaal zonder vocht is dat het zo zit en des te meer alleen maar lucht in plaats van vocht dat zo steeds hoger gebouwd kan worden en dat het totaan de dampkringrand kan komen het is van een fantast in feite snap je of het zo zit heeft die alleen maar een vermoeden van maar bewijs of feiten die het bekrachtigen heeft die niet alleen maar het vermoeden zo zeg ik fantast wand hij gaat van vermoedens uit die waar of onwaar kunnen zijn

we should start to use ogms, if not we are screwed

In drought resistant crops most of the time survival mechanisms are inverse correlated with very low seed production. Although genes are activited they only produce for survival and not to enough seed for food. Biomass will not mean food.

We should take care of this issue by tackling the cause, which, in my opinion, is the growth of the human population. What logically thinking person, believes that increasing our numbers is necessary for our survival ? 2 Children is more than enough for any couple / family. What we really need is more education and contraception. Why would i start reproducing, with the knowledge, that i am starving myself already ?

THIS IS SO GREAT, AND YET I JUST KNOW IT RN ! AFTER 8 YEARS??????????

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Doing things God's way, revealed clearly in the intense design we see, is the way to go.

Brawndo! It's what plants crave.

e'er Australia is in BIG problem (in 20 years)

ik neem aan dat zo dus ook een hetelucht balon werkt het vocht stoomd weg de lucht blijft over en dan gaat de balon stijgen of het daardoor komt probeer en je komt erachter maar daar ben ik niet kundig in maar andere mensen juist wel

Or just promote food forests and de-desertification projects...

Ballonnen die mogelijk heel wienig vocht bevatten kunnen mogelijk omdat ze lichter zijn dan lucht en lucht meer uitzet omdaqt er minder druk op staat steeds hoger stijgen dus weinig vocht stijgt het met veel lucht zonder vocht het is mijn theorie dat ballonen dan stijgen gaan als alleen maar lucht erin zit zonder vocht

The Most High Hates when you mess around with his already perfect creations. He specifically states not to mix seeds, animals, etc.... Instead read in scripture about the blessings and curses. Blessings if you obey what he has asked of us and we will get rain and great produce. If we do Not obey, then drought and destruction. Choose Life! Be blessed!

For a second I thought the title was "How we can make CORPS survive without water". Now I'm frustrated.

Vertical farming!

This is great, it's not heavy genetic mod so hopefully the fearful ignorant masses will be at ease. The plant clap was cute too.

check out Paul Wheaton. He offers many alternative solutions to gmos.

what about TED dedesertafcaton? that would fix everything.

meer lucht in een balon en zonder vocht in de balon ik neem aan dat het dan minder gewicht heeft en dus mogelijk kan gaan stijgen

Yes, we should call it GMO!

luchtvochtigheid hoe hoger het is des te minder vocht en dan uiteindelijk totaal geen vocht meer en zo eigenlijk iets bouwen dat zo hoog reikt dat het de atomosfeer bereikt maar dit is als het niet zou kunnen fantasie van een onwetende fantast ja van een fantast is het dan

1:00 yeah... most of the people choose to live in the middle of the desert WHERE YOU RARELY SEE LIVING HUMAN BEING...

Yes, they should be considered "GM" as they are. As are nearly every foodstuff we consume. Stop equating "GM" to "bad."

hydroponics and or aquaponics is the answer.

1:25 I live in the small dot and the bottom of africa

How about corn?

Captions on by default for South African accent? wut?

1:55 why won't she talk about all the farmable land created in northern canda and northern russia?

This is pretty cool, but simply reducing our consumption of animal products would save a heck of a lot of water...and would reduce greenhouse gas emission, hence contributing less to global warming, which in turn causes less droughts. Win win.

Can the resurrection genes transfer to humans eventually through the consumption of said GMO? Would we shrivel up and then come back to life?... Back to life as what? :D

Agricultural Revolution. Industrial Revolution. Genetic Revolution?

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