Incredible Discovery of an Entirely New Organelle That Fixes Nitrogen

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a never before seen organelle found in life called nitroplast
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0:00 Complexity of life
0:40 Symbiosis and organelles
2:35 Another organelle from more recent times
3:30 Endosymbiotic theory
4:00 Nitrogen and plants
5:15 New organelle that fixes nitrogen
5:50 Strange organism that possesses this
8:00 Confirmations
8:40 Important organism overall
9:20 Using this for plants?
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@NemencioRas Ай бұрын

Imagine mitochondria, chloroplasts and nitroplast, all integrated into one sigle organism. Such organism can thrive anywhere there's water, CO2, N2 and light.

@spanner5940 Ай бұрын

Yea that's just a legume. Last time I checked Kidney beans haven't taken over the world yet

@Whatisthisstupidfinghandle Ай бұрын

@@spanner5940yet

@jasonlow6943 Ай бұрын

Crisper we have a big ask in mind...

@NemencioRas Ай бұрын

@@jasonlow6943... like: Crisper can I be modified so I can have my own Nitrogen fixing and fotosynthesis under my skin and then say good-bye to the food industries? haha 🤭

@tommy-er6hh Ай бұрын

Would we call it....a triffid?

@AnglophobiaIsevil7 Ай бұрын

Omg engineering nitroplast into grain crops like wheat, rice, and corn would be an insane game changer. I mean we could finally use a lot of previously abandoned soils and it would be a revolution equal to the discovering of ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer in the late 1800's. Wow i hope i live to see that level of jump in our agriculture

@RALL123456 Ай бұрын

True, it must have great potential. I feel however almost threatened by this news. This is huge. It could disrupt in a major way the land based ecosystems.. we would give this organism a step up that alters the course of evolution in a unpredictable way. But theres no stopping humankind 😅

@cso6565 Ай бұрын

Create the nitroplast-into-plants foundation to make it happen

@shadowhenge7118 Ай бұрын

You could grow plants in no soil at all. So long as you had water and co2 plus the other trace elents needed, you would never see fallow soil again.

@kreynolds1123 Ай бұрын

I suspect that adding nitroplast to plants would cause them to consume more energy as the nitroplast fix nitrogen. It might mean slower growth and fewer carbohydrates in fruits and vegetables, while increasing the capacity growth in nitrogen poor soils without having to add fertaliser. But it would be wonderful to have grasses make nitrogen and reclame lands poor in nitrogen. Maybe it would be better to grow nitrogen fixing bacteria in vats. Could we make it less energy intensive than haber-bosch process?

@SebaBuenoHaceMusiquitaJijiji Ай бұрын

FREE AUTOMATED FARMS!!! FREE FOOD PLEEAASEEE 😢🙏

@jounik Ай бұрын

An organelle fixing atmospheric nitrogen is a pretty important find. Kudos to Anton for prompt reporting!

@TheReferrer72 Ай бұрын

Yes add it to plants what can go wrong?

@sindrek8 Ай бұрын

@TheReferrer72 nothing at all! Its not like Nitrogen is, *checks notes* 78% of the atmosphere!

@ginnyjollykidd Ай бұрын

That is, beyond legumes and kudzu.

@ginnyjollykidd Ай бұрын

@@TheReferrer72Plenty! Kudzu grows fast and can fix nitrogen. It can grow over other plants, cut out their source of sunlight, and outcompete other plants. Rangers say jokingly but seriously, "When you're cutting kudzu, you don't stand in one place for very long." Plants created with these nitroplasts might work, but you'll have to watch them like kudzu. I wonder if they can be introduced into cotton so it could be grown year round?

@seanmadson8524 Ай бұрын

@@ginnyjollykidd I imagine this would only be introduced into plants we want, like crops, and probably in controlled environments at first, but the benefits could be worth it

@ENDESGA Ай бұрын

*THEY FOUND ME!*

@DickGallo-dk7wi Ай бұрын

😂

@user-it7lf7kk8m Ай бұрын

Now its your turn. Count to 100

@Atok595 Ай бұрын

Jesus or aliens?

@VanBurenOfficial Ай бұрын

Ladies and gentlemen we got em

@MartinDxt Ай бұрын

You are so 12 sided!

@rickw0226 Ай бұрын

Discoveries like this usually never come to light in mainstream media because it is thought that most consumers aren't interested. Anton begs to differ. Best channel on KZfaq!

@gyrogearloose1345 Ай бұрын

Why name us as 'consumers' Sir? Consumers of knowledge? Quite impossible in my view . . .

@rickw0226 Ай бұрын

@@gyrogearloose1345 Consumers of Ideas. There is no "knowledge" per say.

@PartlyXenon Ай бұрын

1. Based on your sentence and common usage, “media” would be the thing we consume 2. Per se* (both Latin words) 3. Forgive me 🙇🏻‍♀️

@rickw0226 Ай бұрын

@@PartlyXenon I stand corrected on both counts.

@gyrogearloose1345 Ай бұрын

@@PartlyXenon Tibi gratias ago pro responso tuo. Miror quid sibi velit.

@michaellee6489 Ай бұрын

This is why I love this channel. It's not always about the outer Universe, instead being about the Earth, Life, and it's own mysteries. Thank You and Stay Wonderful, Anton

@robertunderwood1011 Ай бұрын

Agree Anton has excellent taste in his selection of scientific news

@estebanjorquera4606 Ай бұрын

Anton, a small correction, I'm fairly sure that the consensus is that mitochondria were the first endosymbiotic event, considering that this idea is supported by phylogenetic analysis indicating that they are an earlier development. And more importantly, plants/algae have both mitochondria and chloroplasts, in this case, if chloroplasts were first this would mean that mitochondria were assimilated twice, or that we are descended from algae and lost our chloroplasts during evolution. Anyway, great video!.

@MichaelSmith-lm5sl Ай бұрын

You make a fair point about the evidence supporting mitochondria being the earlier endosymbiotic event. Let me re-examine the evidence on both sides: The phylogenetic analyses indicating mitochondria evolved prior to chloroplasts is certainly compelling evidence in favor of that sequence of events. As you note, if chloroplasts had formed first, it would require two separate mitochondrial endosymbioses or primary loss of chloroplasts, both of which seem less parsimonious than a single mitochondrial endosymbiosis followed later by chloroplast acquisition. However, some researchers have argued that early interactions between prokaryotes leading to hydrogenosome or mitosome lineages muddy the chloroplast vs. mitochondrion branching order interpretation from phylogenies. And the metabolic capabilities of plastids could theoretically have evolved first if ancient cyanobacteria occupied photoautotrophic niches prior to aerobic conditions favoring mitochondrial respiration. Ultimately, you make a valid point - the mitochondrial-then-chloroplast scenario does minimize evolutionary steps needed. And the presence of both organelles in plants/algae supports mitochondria coming before plastids was the ancestral scenario. While alternative models have been proposed, the consensus view does seem to be that mitochondria represent the earlier endosymbiotic event based on current evidence

@stanleydavidson6543 27 күн бұрын

Im a believer in adaptation, not evolution we did not come from a lower life form

@tomholroyd7519 Ай бұрын

4:37 This is the thing with "airponics" or "hydroponics", there are literally thousands of important species in the soil, to the point where the soil is considered to be an organism on its own. Sure, monocultures can exist for a while, but did I mention biodiversity. In a recent lecture at the NIH a researcher asked the audience, "How many species are involved in the growth of an apple?" Expecting the answer, apple trees, and bees, and maybe some ants, and the researcher interrupted to say, "the answer is, We Don't Know, we are still counting." The soil is alive, it's a biome, fungi, plants, bacteria, archae, and I am reminded EVERY SPRING when the soil wakes up and spews spores into the air

@Krunch2020 Ай бұрын

Huh??

@epistemologicalnihilist5746 Ай бұрын

@@Krunch2020he's saying, like how a bacteria is an organism, the totality of whats relative to soil acts exactly how an organism would due to the unknown quantity of microorganisms within the soil.

@darylbrown8834 Ай бұрын

Symbiosis. 👍

@billable1861 Ай бұрын

When you think of it a fish tank is a biome like this too with circulation. Just like you can make a mini rainforest in a jar. The earth is a biome or organelle. Just like how he was talking about fractals the other day there are a lot of things infinitely repeating on a micro and macro level.

@keithhowell4138 Ай бұрын

You could say the world with all its galaxies is a biome

@cipsahoy9639 Ай бұрын

6:55 A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON

@iambiggus Ай бұрын

...still better than picking up that stupid "Unusual Gem".

@urishima Ай бұрын

GOD DAMN IT!

@brosephbroman7564 Ай бұрын

Lol I just posted the same comment. Great minds think alike.

@Bibrius Ай бұрын

I freaked out when I saw it, damn PTSD. I heard her voice too!

@XKathXgames Ай бұрын

LISTEN! HEAR ME AND OBEY!

@rodylermglez Ай бұрын

This discovery is amazing; a very strong evidence for the theory of endosymbiosis and thus a revolution in biology. Life is truly weird.

@turtletom8383 Ай бұрын

It wouldn't surprise me if the microbiome helps produce mitochondria maybe through horizontal gene transfer

@Michaelno Ай бұрын

I wish I knew what you were talking about. It sounds important

@basketcaseface813 Ай бұрын

@@Michaelno endosymbiosis is the thoery that organelles were originally their own living thing that, somewhere down the line of history, were absorbed by something else and lived in co-harmony. there is some strong evidence to suggest that something like mitochondria were at one point their own separate living thing, but were absorbed by one of our extremely early ancestors and then lived in harmony. i simplified it heavily but you get the idea.

@tom-hy1kn Ай бұрын

@@basketcaseface813 Their own living things? They can no more live on their own as your heart can live on its own without the rest of your body. Machines inside the cell read DNA and make the organelles, they don't just pop out of a magic pond.

@Prabhu108. Ай бұрын

@@basketcaseface813 Wait so if they were absorbed then how were they present in their next generation? Shouldn't only the organism that absorbed them exist?

@michaelkennedy8270 Ай бұрын

Once in a while Anton imparts something that fractures my scientific viewpoint and makes me mouth 'wow' at what I'm hearing. This is one of these moments.

@Sergei_kv82 Ай бұрын

Well, science constantly changes that's how it works until better science is discovered and proven.

@cosmicraysshotsintothelight Ай бұрын

I wish I was a tenth as smart as this guy. Hello, Wonderful Instructor!

@EricDMMiller Ай бұрын

What is so surprising about this?

@cosmicraysshotsintothelight Ай бұрын

@@EricDMMiller I guess then that you do not number among the smart asses, even though it appears that you are trying very hard.

@_ninthRing_ Ай бұрын

I know what you mean & I already know plenty of science. I hope I never get to the stage where science is no longer wondrous to me, when I stop going wow at some astonishing new discovery.

@AlleluiaElizabeth Ай бұрын

The possibilities for plants that could fix their own nitrogen are awesome.

@rubenperez181 Ай бұрын

I am currently doing an internship in a Munich lab studying this topic. It will be very hard, but promising :)

@ruthnovena40 Ай бұрын

Why break what is not broken..

@thorr18BEM Ай бұрын

@@ruthnovena40the system is already broken. Something like 50% of the billions of people on the planet works starve to death if we stopped using nitrogen fertilizer. If the species had stopped growing several billion ago, I would agree with you. We are currently enslaved to a fertilizer process which pumps ridiculous amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. That atmosphere is nearly broken now as well and we won't be stopping any time soon.

@AlleluiaElizabeth Ай бұрын

@@ruthnovena40 Mitochondria and chloroplasts were a win.

@kamuroshow4884 Ай бұрын

Introducing this nitroplast into plant cells would be a huge gamechanger. The scientist who can pull that off is going to be rich. Very rich

@Alicorn_ Ай бұрын

I'm no biologist, but I assume it more complicated than simply getting nitroplast symbiosis within plant cells (which already sounds difficult). If plants are relying on a culture of bacteria surrounding their roots to fix the nitrogen, then some new system would have to be created for the plant to get the nitroplasts into the soil, or somehow suck in surrounding soil/air nitrogen.

@erkinalp Ай бұрын

@@Alicorn_ or alter the skin structure of the leafs to allow efficient nitrogen fixation (they still need roots for anatomic reasons)

@BruderRaziel Ай бұрын

The "scientist" or rather the group of scientists who pull that off aren´t going to be rich, the corporation they work for will be even more super ultra rich. The grunts who do the work might not even get a raise.

@retrictumrectus1010 Ай бұрын

On the flip side, any scientist or corporation that tries it but fails will be bankrupt, or at least their investors are.

@Yaivenov Ай бұрын

A nitroplast enhanced chlorophyll plant sounds like the world's most invasive species just waiting to happen.

@JohnJStanton Ай бұрын

I have subscriptions to Science and Nature (it is hard to believe how inexpensive you can get it, $50-$75 per year each), but I really absorb what Anton presents much better. There are a few channels where theoretical physicists leave me in the dust when they start to talk about non-locality and Bell’s Theorem, even quantum computing and entanglement can be rough, but Anton is just that perfect speed for me. So, thanks Anton for making science papers and breakthroughs accessible.

@Apeiron242 Ай бұрын

I want to know who is breaking all the nitrogen in the first place.

@jessicatymczak5852 Ай бұрын

Mushrooms

@Adallace Ай бұрын

😑

@DrTed3 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the dad joke.

@Gelatinocyte2 Ай бұрын

Us eukaryotic cells.

@einyv Ай бұрын

John Wick

@SirCharles12357 Ай бұрын

Mind blown! You did it again Anton! Mother nature never ceases to amaze me! Both Macro and Micro wonders!

@johngleeman8347 Ай бұрын

Legumes, red alders, and a few other plants can fix nitrogen as part of their actual root systems (root nodules) as opposed to an exchange with bacteria in the soil itself (though I believe it is more of a cell to cell interdependence of the plants and bacteria, versus the cellular level incorporation Anton is talking about). This is really neat. Having all plants able to fix nitrogen on their own without bacteria helping and without substantial nitrogen amendments would be a huge game-changer for agriculture.

@erkinalp Ай бұрын

And even better, having plants that can fix nitrogen using their leafs

@cullendwyer7441 25 күн бұрын

Yes, for example soybean root nodules host Frankia bacteria which fix gaseous nitrogen to a usable form. But how do the bacteria do it? Do they, in turn, host a former symbiot organelle, or do they poses the ability in their own genetic makeup?

@JennySimon206 17 күн бұрын

Or we upset the balance of nature. There must be a reason not all plants fix nitrogen.

@sharonminsuk Ай бұрын

Fascinating! Just to be clear, plant cells have *_both_* chloroplasts *_and_* mitochondria. This is something a lot of beginning biology students get a little wrong, thinking that they represent a contrast between plants and animals: one organelle for plants and the other for animals. But no, mitochondria are essential! Plants have both. (This also makes me wonder about your comment that chloroplasts came first; is that known for sure? It's possible, but it would make more sense for mitochondria to have come first, since they are shared among a more distant common ancestor.) One thing I don't think was mentioned in this video... have they determined what living bacterium is most closely related to these nitroplasts? It would be interesting to know. Similar analyses have identified what living bacteria are most closely related to mitochondria and chloroplasts. (In fact, I just looked it up, and apparently the bacterium most closely related to chloroplasts just happens to be a nitrogen-fixing bacterium, which might add an additional interesting wrinkle to this story.)

@tsm688 Ай бұрын

current consensus is mitochondria came first, supported by genetic evidence, but not a 100% certain thing.

@sharonminsuk Ай бұрын

@@tsm688 Thanks. I figured!

@Negs42 Ай бұрын

It's a Cyanobacteria that was "swallowed" by an algae

@brosephbroman7564 Ай бұрын

*A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON!*

@Seredhieal Ай бұрын

Thats what it reminded me as well! Skyrim will be always special!!

@brosephbroman7564 Ай бұрын

@@Seredhieal Always indeed!

@testboga5991 Ай бұрын

I really enjoy your videos! It's so great to have somebody who doesn't just trade in clickbait. Keep it up! 👍

@FirstLast-ml7yf Ай бұрын

Thanks for covering inner space as well...

@theblackswan2373 Ай бұрын

Fascinating. Imagine the effect on staple crops like corn if they could fix their own nitrogen.

@davidpescod7573 Ай бұрын

Many thanks Anton for describing this incredible discovery

@RED911 Ай бұрын

Outstanding work!!!putting a lot of very complex information to make sense of our world with significance. Thank you so much!

@PlanetZeroVideos Ай бұрын

Tyler Coale used to work in the research lab I’m currently in, seeing him on your channel is mind blowing

@kelsyclark221 Ай бұрын

They have discovered the tiniest D12 ever. The dice goblin within me now wants a microscope

@erinmac4750 Ай бұрын

I was thinking that my D12 is now Nitroplast!

@JeffMartin1 Ай бұрын

Hey Anton, thanks for another amazing video, and btw we look forward to hearing your thoughts about the reconnection with Voyager 1. Who can not be astonished that we can reboot and troubleshoot a vintage computer that is 15 billion miles away

@erinmac4750 Ай бұрын

Truth! Voyager has blown my mind at its performance.

@SoulDelSol Ай бұрын

I read about this earlier today and my first thought was Anton will cover this!

@belial666ukr Ай бұрын

I feel like its my birthday every time anton posts not boring black hole/dark metter video, but tru science content. I learn here a lot, thank you

@iLLeag7e Ай бұрын

Anton, you are the most dedicated science communicator I've ever known of and I really appreciate you digging through all these papers to find such relevant / amazing stuff for me to learn. Thanks buddy

@fredmac1000 Ай бұрын

Thank you for all the wonderful information that you are providing us,,,🌷🌷👏👏🙏🙏

@benoloughlin1557 Ай бұрын

Wow, I was trying to find your email and make a suggestion you cover this story as it appears really amazing and could be a great subject for an episode! I’m going to enjoy watching this video later tonight!!

@johnsmiff8328 Ай бұрын

The return to biology is great to see!

@dots3v3n35 Ай бұрын

there is such a wealth of information from these videos. You are clearly not english first language but you explain really complicated stuff without using the big technical words. Props for learning english and reading abstractions and dumbing it down so that all of us peasants can actually understand what's going on. Eric Weinstein mentioned how there are no explanations of where we are in science that a normal person could understand and now education is turning into a club of rich people because it takes money to go to a college or University. This is God's work you're doing man, seriously, thank you so much for what you do.

@tompowers8495 Ай бұрын

Anton.....you get the best cutting edge science......I really enjoy your content and presentation.....looking forward to more ........😊.

@sarahchristine2345 Ай бұрын

I love the way Anton says nitrogen!

@muzzac3408 Ай бұрын

There is this common idea - and one I used to share - that the endosymbionts were 'engulfed' by their host bacteria. But I know there are people in the field who are advancing the idea that the ancestor of the eukaryotic cell was actually a colony of cells, each specialized in some way. So the internal structures in eukaryotic cells arose from the superstructure of the colonies.

@SB4F Ай бұрын

Anton you are the only [science] KZfaqr without a PhD I listen to. Anytime I research topics you cover, I find you stay true to the science and the only assumptions you seem to make are when you first give us an opinion warning.

@stevedavis1437 Ай бұрын

Totally fascinating. Thank you, Anton! Yours is absolutely one of the best channels on KZfaq :-)

@jamesnasmith984 Ай бұрын

Very clearly explained. Thank you.

@mOTHgOBLIN Ай бұрын

Hello, Anton! One thing that I've wondered about is how much time you generally spend a day finding and reading research articles/papers? It amazes me that you consistently find such incredibly interesting topics to discuss.

@coachcal4876 19 күн бұрын

There are already nitrogen fixing legume plants. Dr white has also uncovered how the roots eat some of these bacteria and they are trapped inside the roots. I don’t really like the sound of genetically modifying anymore plants or microbes. We don’t have a very good long term track record when we do this. Thank you for the video. Fascinating topics yet again!

@adamus Ай бұрын

This was so well put together. As always 🙌

@dasbroisku Ай бұрын

This is super interesting! Great job covering this Anton!

@alanmolox2095 19 күн бұрын

I love when scientists say "And at some point something happened..." - We all know what happened, it did a "Leap-Evo", that's an evolutionary step that can't be explained.

@norb6492 Ай бұрын

Not to forget to give credit to Lynn Margulis for reviving and expanding modern endosymbiosis theory. You’ll like her. Quite the iconoclastic scientist.

@jimcurtis9052 Ай бұрын

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 😁

@lobabobloblaw Ай бұрын

Thanks for another awesome video Anton. 🙏

@greghelton4668 Ай бұрын

What a perspective to think of our bodies as an aggregation of disparate symbiotic organisms working together. There’s a KZfaq doctor, Jason Fung, who talks about cancer from that perspective. Truly amazing and mysterious.

@felhomaly Ай бұрын

The remote resemblances are also interesting: nitrogen fixing heterocysts of some filamentous cyanobacteria.

@TarisRedwing Ай бұрын

Amazing I very look forward to future updates on this topic!

@axisonconsole9192 Ай бұрын

Hello wonderful anton. Thank you for more science news and updates. Stay amazing, stay awesome.

@tearren1 Ай бұрын

One of the most interesting aspects of this to me is the pentagon shape arrangement of the organism.

@fredericbaue Ай бұрын

This is literally mind blowing. Your best video yet! Thank you.

@YouTube_is_full_of_trolls Ай бұрын

Cells are an example of society at its finest. A give and take that ends jn a beautiful life. It's so weird how complex our bodies are, and it's all so beautiful.

@Snoopyzell Ай бұрын

Really interesting. Thanks.

@marcfruchtman9473 Ай бұрын

Great info. Thank you for making this video.

@Relaxbrother18860 22 күн бұрын

Absolutely wonderful educational as always. I watch these twice to enjoy and learn hands down one of the best. Thanks million.

@SAOS451316 Ай бұрын

If plants started having nitroplasts we would have a big problem. That's a huge evolutionary advantage and whatever organisms are given such genes will quickly become invasive. It's not something that can naturally evolve any time soon so there's no way for other plants to compete or cooperate with them. Any nitrogen-poor soil would be overrun and converted to nitrogen-rich soil which is bad news for entire biomes. Genetic engineering is a powerful tool but it must be used carefully and with wisdom. Look at golden rice versus Monsanto corn; the former feeding millions of people and the latter destroying swathes of farmland. Let us hope that it remains a difficult tool to use and no one invents a gene printer.

@MyraSeavy Ай бұрын

So very interesting!! 😊

@awillis2676 Ай бұрын

I always enjoy these videos. Thank you for bringing them to us.

@ministerofjoy Ай бұрын

Thank you Anton, I was so hyped to know more about this recently discovered organelle❤

@paulmccaffrey2985 Ай бұрын

I think we should let nature handle introducing nitroplasts. However, it could be an interesting terraforming technique.

@Gelatinocyte2 Ай бұрын

That's never going to happen in nature alone.

@2019inuyasha Ай бұрын

Perhaps this could ability could be given to bacteria that is then used as a safer fertilizer.

@Gelatinocyte2 Ай бұрын

@@2019inuyasha Bacteria already do that, and they're already present in the soil; the problem is how the plants can make use of them more effectively, if at all. Of course the solution is to make an endosymbiont out of them, and it turns out they already exist which is the subject of this video.

@pressuredrop1 Ай бұрын

Fascinating and informative as always.

@MrCardeso Ай бұрын

It's a great time to be alive to witness all of these advancements in all areas of knowledge.

@lucash7012 Ай бұрын

Blows my mind that this video still has significantly less views than all of his recent videos. This is big news, and shows we’ve just barely scratched the surface of biology and that there are likely so many other species and biological systems hiding right under our noses! I hope Anton continues to cover biology discoveries in between the other content, but I’m here for all of it either way!

@s.schattenprophet Ай бұрын

Yeah, let's engineer a plant with nitroplasts. If it's escapes the lab..... and spreads like weed, superseding all plants.... what can go wrong?

@Gelatinocyte2 Ай бұрын

Plants don't spread like viruses; any lab leaks of experimental plants is vastly way easier to manage or control.

@akra9304 27 күн бұрын

the dinosaur family ending irl

@runnerthemoose Ай бұрын

Sounds like the The Blight from Interstellar, an organism the consumes nitrogen but kills all current plant life..

@lpeabody Ай бұрын

Yeahhhh that was my first thought when I read the announcement last week. Yikes. Scary stuff.

@silicon1138 Ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating. Biology completely humbles me in it's complexity, even more so now! Thank you for Another mind blowing video Anton - you rock!

@robertlane6431 Ай бұрын

This is kinda off topic, but that shape would make an excellent semi-rigid inflatable tent! Or even a system of rigid panels that could fold in on itself for transport and storage. Another great video from Anton as usual. Thankyou for all the amazing content you create.

@DeltaHydrixian Ай бұрын

LOAD UP THE NITROPLAST

@Adallace Ай бұрын

The nitroplasts are coming for us 😱

@Happy_Broom Ай бұрын

Cultivating nitroplasts |edit: Coccolithophores| to produce a nitrogen rich agricultural lime seems a more doable implementation and less of a potential sci-fi killer tomato thriller than genetically modifying plants to produce their own nitrogen.

@amlord3826 Ай бұрын

But CRISPR is so cool... until we have zombie tomatoes

@Gelatinocyte2 Ай бұрын

Slippery slope

@davidregen1358 Ай бұрын

Much appreciated enlightenment.

@XxskidudekidxX Ай бұрын

Awesome video. Thank you

@mojeimja Ай бұрын

Let me remind you a premise for "Interstellar" movie. In 2067 a lifeform "blight" destroys plants, to the point of famines and dust storms being a usual everywhere on the planet. So humanity must find another planet to live. Blight breathes nitrogen and destroys oxygen in the atmosphere in the process and is unstoppable. So lets just be very careful while trying to integrate this new "nitroplast" in our plants. :)

@PasqualItizzz Ай бұрын

You shouldn't that lemur licking your hair, that's how I lost mine.

@SpydrXIII Ай бұрын

i would love if we could perfect some crop plants like this. nature only does what is good enough, you can always help improve it. you just have to be ridiculously careful and paranoid about doing it.

@Taomantom Ай бұрын

Hello Anton! First Fractals and now geometric shapes are learning to use nitrogen. Fascinating last couple of days! ;-}

@randallpetroelje3913 Ай бұрын

Hey Anton, I love you and I want to thank you for all the scientific input and inspiration. I’m activity is a hard thing to keep in science and you are the guy to keep that objective I thank you

@quicktastic Ай бұрын

If you don't exercise, all of this slows down and you become weaker and weaker, eventually unable to fight off disease.

@johntresemer5631 Ай бұрын

gotta admit, Anton, you rock. I would love to understand half of what you do. I have a small museum with a grapefruit size duodecahedron model purchased from the Portland Art Museum, that I used to think was just a beautiful geometric shape. So I am thrilled to see that its “sacred geometry” is applied in the natural world. Thanks for the tip!

@user-lt4pw7rv2l Ай бұрын

I have watched many videos in the last few years. This one just freaks me out so much nothing I’ve ever seen challenges, my attitudes and beliefs, and watching those fractal objects in my new form without explanation for forming.

@Bassotronics Ай бұрын

So awesome! Thanks Anton!

@sarahleehooper6973 Ай бұрын

The plant Azolla has a symbiotic relationship with Anabaena azollae that provides nitrogen to the fern using nitrogen fixation, and the fern provides a habitat for the alga. It’s amazing! The organisms have evolved together for millions of years. Wish more people knew about it! Please look into it!

@asinglebraincell6584 Ай бұрын

It's hard not to love Anton, bringing us interesting science and deepening our understanding and appreciation for the world and universe. Thank you Anton !

@OldieBugger Ай бұрын

Thank you for this very interesting information.

@alisturkericmacnanty159 18 күн бұрын

Your topics FACINATE ME!!!

@georgejanssen6467 Ай бұрын

Hi Anton, you do a great job to inform us with the latest science advancements. Thanks. But please be aware that the mitochondrion merely exist as a bean like structure in case of cellular stress. Healthy cells contain a mitochondrial network consisting of elongated tubes. Can send you a few links. The bean like structures which are usually shown are mostly artists impressions and are derived from cross sections from electron micrographs; a cross section from elongated tubes gives circular and bean like appearance.

@UnKnown-xs7jt Ай бұрын

Thanks 4 this presentation

@blinkingmanchannel 25 күн бұрын

Really really great video!

@lpeabody Ай бұрын

Was wondering when you'd get around to covering this!

@xion637 Ай бұрын

whoa whoa whoa whoa.........whoa. So from an agricultural perspective, you're saying with the introduction of nitroplasts to various plant species, it is theoretically possible to produce plants which can thrive in any climate or environment. We could have plants indigenous to remote parts of the planet that are needed for medicinal purposes grown effortlessly in a garden. The real world application of something like that is actually mindblowing.

@tsm688 Ай бұрын

I think giving nitroplasts to crops would allow them to require less nutrients, but need even more energy. Fixing nitrogen doesn't come free.

@yvonnemiezis5199 Ай бұрын

Very interesting information, exciting,tnanks👍🤗

@grudev Ай бұрын

love your in depth and yet explained like for a 5 graders topics! Your channel is awesome Anton, but why no monetisation (ads)? Did youtube being youtube again?

@thesilentgod7863 Ай бұрын

Putting this into plants will be a revolution as game changing as the discovery of fire

@rickradix7464 Ай бұрын

Awesome. Thanks

@101personal 22 күн бұрын

Great video. Great discovery

@wleizero Ай бұрын

I love this unique flavor of space/life news!

@gringo1723 Ай бұрын

Good one, Anton! Always thrilling to hear about new forms of life! The Human population shall immensely benefit if this Nitroplast is adaptable to agriculture. Compliments for a superb presentation! ♾