Nina Fedoroff
Nina Fedoroff
Nina Vsevolod Fedoroffis an American molecular biologist known for her research in life sciences and biotechnology, especially transposable elements or jumping genes. and plant stress response. In 2007, President George W. Bush awarded her the National Medal of Science, she is also a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
engineering pests example
One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.
country opportunity engineering
India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.
land grows
The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better,
needs world waste
In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.
taken agriculture people
In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.
dna agriculture people
There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.
people support growth
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
years long sometimes
We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.
water people needs
We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.
thinking generations gone
We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.
environmental ends refugee
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
able way lasts
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
support half earth
If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
government overcoming scientist
I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.