Patrons from Silicon valley, was awarded the “Breakthrough Prize” scientist-biologist Joan Hori. This award is sometimes referred to as the “Oscar of science”, and received its Hori for the fact that he refused his 30-year work on growing particularly resistant to the different conditions of plants. Now she will deal with the varieties of herbs that will remove carbon from the atmosphere and slow its warming.
According to the calculations of Hori, she needs ten years, $50 million and 5% of all the planet’s arable land to form a “green sewage treatment plant factory”, which can absorb up to 50 % of the total CO2 emitted by man into the air. It will plant mutants, in tissues which contain a large amount of polymer material “suberin” (Suberin). It is already there in the bark of some plants – it is only necessary to withdraw such varieties, which suberin is unusually a lot.
Suberin acts as a tube, an insulating layer, which is moisture and gases, including carbon dioxide. Plants can absorb and hold carbon for hundreds of years if not millennia. What is important is that no biodegradation of the soil, and it gives a chance to use them as crops next to conventional plants.
Joan Hori – eminent specialist guided mutations of plants. She led varieties of plants that can grow in the dark, have opened growth hormones “brassinosteroids”, he created dozens of resistant to cold and pathogens of crops. Also in the plans of the scientist to develop a new kind of the beans based on the chickpeas, which exceeds the protein content of meat of cattle.
Source — Business Insider