ah, is the end of the pandemic in site? we show what it could look like. return in the normal. and we visit those who are finding it difficult. exceeds his successes and noon in a weekly coven 19 special. every thursday con d. w. o. o. july 20th marks the 200 anniversary of the birth of gregor mendel. who you may ask do you know who's going to go monday was no idea. it rings about no, nina, i don't think i know him. i'll hybridization. we had that in biology right. just

recently, and i was, i only know i mendel's laws of heredity who as he something about genetic this is genetics genetic. and then then yeah, okay. yes, of course. yeah. what can you tell me what i he was a me when to make for beginning genetics? yeah, he was among for all those still racking their brains will look at why his discoveries are so important and why schools still teach mendel's laws today. welcome to to morrow to day. the science show on t w gregor mendel was indeed a monk. in 1843, he joined a monastery in a town now known as bro know in the czech republic. he became intrigued by the peas growing in the monasteries garden. they had purple in pink flowers. the pods were

different. colors to some peas around, others were wrinkled. how can there be so many variations? he wonder? he began cross breeding the peas producing more than $28000.00 plants. the results amazed him. when he crossed purple in white flowers, he only got plants with purple flowers. then he crossed 2 of those 2nd generation purple flowers and got a few with white flowers again. 2 he began to understand the laws of inheritance. some traits are dominant, others a recessive, young and impressive discovery that has been a huge benefit to the modern world. so happy birthday to gregory mental mood. mendel's laws still form the basis of our understanding of modern genetics. the later discovery of chromosomes further widened our understanding of how heredity works. to day plants can be bred to favor specific traits.

cannabis is one example of this. what at 1st glance might look like a marijuana plantation is actually a work in progress. the research is. those green leaves are packed with valuable data to be assessed in the lab by a dna sequencing. stevenson and his team are on a mission to unlock the secrets of cannabis. 3 repeated cycles of growing and analysis. soon the results of that was going to a huge database about the plant. if i am of hold all go normally shows each some of the plans are susceptible to pester, chang shao while others have resistance mechanisms that are obviously of interest to us know through and some plans have a higher yield than others. all can be some have a faster growth rate. so, and there are differences in their chemical constituents. we have plans containing g, h, c, and some that will not it all again,

but instead contain other fascinating chemicals that he's gotten in the in hold. no foot cannabis contains over $400.00 such chemicals. you sent everything from medicine and the food industry to cosmetics around 200 have already been identified by the team at pure gene. finding out which properties a particular plant has involves the research. as d coating its genetic information, it's dna. com, individual sequences contain information on specific properties such as flavor resilience and useful ingredients o pure gene has analyzed and evaluated the dna of thousands of parts. a task only possible with the help of artificial intelligence. the insights provided enable them to grow new cannabis plants with new properties. eyes for the garage to own the ma'am of all caught,

one of the world's biggest cannabis growing companies who know operates in areas that have major problems with patches the such as a particular fungus leim and meet the rattling, also dish. make these meet the repealed small. this affects 20 to 25 percent dance artist, which means substantial loss. oscar law, da thing that meet your needs. we're center on thought. so we're currently working on cross greeting the to produce plans for that company. resistance to the fungus route, so some so i can little bit the of the mark bring along with genetic information. the database also includes the results of field experiments. the team has dissected, measured and photographed hundreds of plants, even record that the size, smile, and appearance of the roots. back in the lab, they also examined the all important buds. looking for evidence of pests and checking their exact color. the samples of them bagged and stored for future use.

the 5th district here is some we look at the entire plant, the standing and the number of side shoot josiah, which together determine the plant architecture tool. and like many other aspect, sog, the agronomic properties of cannabis are also relatively unknown. emotional hello, we want to find out which plan to play with which architecture has the best yields and results in a healthy plant density harrisonburg. under this, the, the key to cultivating new cannabis plants is combining knowledge of the plant architecture with dna as that of resorting to gene manipulation. the research is used the conventional technique of cross breeding. they create new combinations from different plants with different properties. it's called molecular breeding and in this case it's also a business model. you can imagine that a pharmaceutical application will want a very structured plant in terms of its kind of annoyed and token ratio. and

another customer might want a, a fiber from the client. and the plant that produces the fiber is very different from the plot that produces the caliber noise or turbans. so here are, we've read the varieties which are fit for purpose for their application for our clients. the potential market for a range of cannabis products is huge. stevens and started to venture with kind of is derived tobacco substitutes. 3 years ago he set up the research campus here at just the right time. i knew seed sir, had made the mowgli tie down to call the opportunity was there since cannabis has long been demonized by lawmakers who only focus on the t h. c. it contains 8 and little else. but at the same time, them, we fight a huge progress with molecular breeding molecule, analyzing this amount of data, and generate data points on this kind of scale that would not have been possible

a few years ago, those technologically or affordably all gotten at mach, lexi order to solve all future breeding programs will mean having big investors on board. but also seat developers bio informative sions, and a i experts as well as enormous computing power. to give you a few examples, we've generated 200000 data points for cannibal noise alone. just this year, we generated a 1000000 data points of physical characteristics. laplant and our genome sequence generates $10000000.00 data points per week, thus, each a taking a look evil. this is a technology that can be applied to all plants. of course, of a professor once told me, the imagine you have an apple, you change one single property and you end the shelf life by 7 days. people think about the changes that would mean for the world outfit. it gives you an idea of what will be possible in the future with molecular breeding. that soft ice will come from off polish. but for now,

they're focusing on cannabis. and with the basic research soon set for completion, your gene is ripe for a $1000000000.00 market. once again, all that genetic fine tuning is based on gregor mendel. laws. his discoveries brought real change to farming and the 20th century. plants could now be propagated to bring out specific characteristics like rape seed, for example. it thanks to lindell that we now have palatable canola oil. but the 20th century also produced a broader agricultural revolution. here's an example from germany. a farmer, some animals and the simplest of implements for many centuries that was typical and agriculture. the farmers hands were his main tools, augmented by patience and notes of muscle power. ah,

but the yield was often meagre. about $1.00 tons per hector for wheat in 1900. then farmers started using fertilizers and pesticides. that boosted harvests by the 1950s weight yields had increased by almost one ton per hector. partly due to advances in farm machinery, agriculture grew more efficient. which in blue dr. with the 7 gene, 22 and 28 horsepower bulldog models. loans puts a tractor into the hands of the foreign community that makes the farmer's work more effortless, economical and profitable attack. nice jewish type in 1955, around 800000 tractors were registered in west germany alone. gradually, the machines established themselves everywhere in german agriculture. landreth cleared for them and areas where consolidated many smaller farms lacked the money

for the expensive technology and gave up. others came in and bought the land farm was became larger and larger and was sadder optimized for yield. in 1980 german farmers grew almost 5 tons of wheat for hector. the use of pesticides went off as well. when the bank that when the vineyards have wind, your cold and me frosts behind them shall pest control, begin shift the progressive by our uses, the culture track 8. 12 with the holder, p t o. the self propelled unit with exxon blower efficiency sage time and money site won't get there was so much production that follows overflowed. starting in the 19 sixty's funding came from the newly founded european economic community, it brought products from farmers at fixed prices. it was a time of butter, mountains and milk lakes. in the 1990s,

the european union changed the subsidies. now farmers received direct payments. the moorland, the more money, large farms with the winners of the new agricultural policy, the yield of wheat po. hector also continued to rise, reaching $7.00 tons in the year, 2000. then more space in nature and more sustainable production became the new catch phrases. many farmers switched to organic farming. yet the bulk of agricultural products still come from industrial fans. and those rising wields per hector in 2018 germany suffered from drought and they fell sharply. livestock farming has also undergone massive changes. pick cows, for example, in the past they provided both milk and meat. now they're specially bred beef

cattle, have more muscle, dairy cows tend to be leaner, but have huge utters a modern dairy cow, produces 3 times more mil than a century ago. and breeders continued to fine tune in the lab with artificial insemination. a prize bull is brought in for work extinct is theodore. so the bull mountains, the cow, but the operator has an artificial vagina ready for which the bull ejaculates into one, and that's how we collect the seamen lot on the how much semen do they get? the state to say, and from one ejaculate, we get 200 to 800 doses depending on the age of the bulls age. but it's business, as usual at the farm which belongs to a company called swiss genetics, in north and switzerland. that main business is collecting semen, the bulls called in twice a week, the company supply seaman from price bowls to thousands of farms all over

switzerland, cows of an artificially inseminated with the desired seaman. molten 700000 cows are impregnated in this way every year. it's been the company's main business for decades, but swiss genetics is now exploring new avenues. that emitter effect is hot. with in vitro fertilization, excels are harvested from sexually mature cow's milk did and brought to the laboratory. and we fertilized them there that so on that dimmer. so then we take them over to these incubators here where they are cultivated for 7 days. after that, we either freeze them or transfer them straight to a cow with some instead of inseminated the cows directly with the bowl semen eggs of fertilized. separately in the laboratory, the focus is on harvesting eggs from the most economically productive cows. these

excels of unfertilized and implanted in a number of different cows which are effectively sorry, got mother's oh, the procedure is expensive, but necessary for the firm to hold its own in a highly competitive market focus. mm hm. it takes marquee, vic, this technology is used a lot all over the world, and then safe connotes on the mid. so we have to keep up with, to ensure our selection program stays competitive, freelance, 5 giga. it allows farmers to quickly breed cows. the half desirable qualities, the honest kinetic said about forced the so say we have one cow that is genetically very valuable. so me, if i breed using artificial insemination, i get one caff each here, a no comma for them to you, but if i use either yes, and then i can harvest eggs repeatedly from that same cow a and fertilize them. would sperm from different bulls the image to ship and the

fact that the thought that then i can get anything from $5.00 to $15.00 calves each year. depending on how i choose to breed from that one genetically valuable cow for them can. it is fact for with you. meanwhile, the swiss town of zant, garland prepared for a cattle show. these cows were in high demand as at donors priced for their genetic qualities. for breeders, as big business, despite the costs involved, both the list of the community base to many long i can reproduce cows that are long living and have a top milk yield me. so my farm produces more milk from the same sized. heard here for the breeders, it's all about reproducing prize cattle at high speed in organic farming. this kind of technology is bound. it also raises fundamental questions about the future of farming. this is as seriously called the risk is that you end up with a reduced jane poll because you keep taking the same dna from a few top house for

a bar in organic farming. we aim for which via diversity or adapted to the different environments size that there's no one top dna and there are many, depending on the environment. but swiss genetics argues i vs could be used to breed a wide range of cows saying it's not just about attaining a high milk yield in san from stud. and today it's more about issues like the feed version rates. so the efficiency with which livestock convert feed into desired output also and then other issues like longevity know, horns and good hell and loss. he came on the excellent day. oh, these days, livestock breeding is a high tech business. opinions differ on whether that's a good thing or not, but this switched genetics. time is certain, it's on the right path. genetic engineering also allows cattle to be bred without horns. so the less likely to

injure each other. many farmers cut off the horns by hand, a painful procedure for the animal. with genetic engineering, there is no pain. but animals still need to be slaughtered. if we want to eat meat, there is no way around that. or is there, ah, this laboratory is growing the meat of the future. biologist, p at try kruger heads up a research team at whitening in university. cultivating so called clean meat a project they've been working on since 2019. the process begins by taking some muscle tissue from a piece of real meat. the research is isolate the stem cells and multiply them and then create that artificial meat pit. i clue guy believes lap grown. meat will play a key role in the future. if and anger threatened us encouraged,

it's shocking how few people in groups are involved in this area of research in germany. it's angry because we have a growing global population folk home and 20 years from now. we won't be able to feed everyone sufficiently with existing methods, marched in chron would celebratory me. it will become a crucial element up wall. more than 80 star tops and research groups are working on lab, meet world white in 2013 moser meet presented the 1st cultured burg patty. as a cost of over 200000 years, concerns joked us be caught in. we can also learn a lot, especially in these early stages, by, by 3 yet. we do now have products that are far cheaper than before, but they're still too expensive. anything towards them, not the toys who mm hm. so we need this process development. you're powell and i'm going to speak with a terry murphy hit like krueger and her team have chosen to take a very specific route in their research. it involves cultivating what

a court steroids from thousands of 1000 cells normally need a sophistic row on. if none is available, after a day or 2, they start to join up with other cells. as of your run once that who list we'd be delighted. if our i did with the steroids really took off and we could use that in large scale production. buffoon chron. but there is still some obstacles in their way steaks, for example, have a grain there, streaked with fat and have a firm consistency characteristics that a tricky to reproduce in the lab. when it comes to minutes to meet. however, the researchers have far more promising results and can already produce an appropriate a soft consistency. ah, so far, most people in germany remain skeptical about lab grown meat. a recent survey

suggested that just 14 percent of consumers but try us out. although young people were more open to the idea lab, well flesh, clint labs mate has a science fiction ring to it. like what was that? and the, for many people, the word laboratory conjures up images of a mad scientist, especially when it comes to producing meat, which we associate with something alive. yes. or lee bending can, or he had to spin on. and it's probably these images that make people skeptical through this life that yeah, and skepticism. i was the most of the word lab suggesting the absolute opposite of something natural women and they are still out there. you could just as well ask how much of today's industrial livestock farming really has anything to do with nature and natural product to simply looking elsewhere. the concept has already taken off. the israeli start up super meat is known for its regular bag or events at restaurants, where diners are offered, the chance to test is lab going,

patty try clue, go and her team look so half ambitious amos reprint vocalist. few accomplish bits we could produce, meet taylor to particular talkers, fish like folic acid enriched made for pregnant women, couldn't meet, i mean, we could out vitamin d and provide a more easy to to me. i can a variety of nutrients to serve in retirement. hyams for feeding and gnashed often . not unlike irish and there's no limit, rarely does he comb clinton guess it's best still a long way to go. that lab grown meet could play a key role in satisfying our appetites in the future. until lab grown meet becomes widely available. conventional meat and fish will remain important sources of protein for many still, there are also good sources of plant based protein including legumes and pulses

such as beans and peas. but experiments are now underway to draw carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into protein. how is that possible? d w's. ahmad chalabi looked into it. hey, have you heard about this? but you can eat air? i'm not kidding. you can turn carbon dioxide into food. please do, says patsy from finland. hey classy. what's on the menu? producing meat alternatives, different kinds of dairy products. it's also sweet ice cream. so on up in finland in northern europe, pass here on the top of that produces one kilogram of protein powder every day. hey passing. how do you do this? we haven't mike rope that basically swims around in a body of liquid wat are in

a ferment. i need the for a mentor. we introduce levels of hydrogen. i'm carbon dioxide, and this is what the micro needs to grow and multi life at the microbe itself is our product crazy. let's check it out. okay, if i understand correctly, but he uses microbes with an appetite for hydrogen and c o 2 just add some newtons, like nitrogen, and phosphorus, po, or the whole process with energy. and the micro will grow and grow and grow a protein product coming out. but passion, how does it taste? it is neutral in paste. therefore, the taste can be made per application,

whether it's weak or saver or but with why should i, if the self passive, about one 3rd off the climate impact is due to what we eat. therefore, we need to get rid of actually from the increased use based product. ok, so let's wrap it up. it is possible to turn carbon dioxide into protein powder that can replace parts of traditional agriculture. good for the climate that sound to leave food for thought. enjoy new food. if i was let is read why i do you have a science question, then send it to us as a video, text or voice message. if your question is chosen for the show will send you

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