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I bet it isn't terrible at its job at all; it probably does way more than humans are even aware of, but in our vast ignorance and limited understanding, we claim it is 'bad at its job.' Our scope is far too narrow, and we don't even know what is actually happening because we cannot see the actual three dimensional environment with all the components interacting. We just know of a very small sliver of interactions that we abstract into portions that are 'singular and unique' in what they do
Every day brings fresh horrors to bedevil us from these mad scientists in their neverending quest to redesign every aspect of nature.
Fellow scientist here: This video, is soooo well made! The explanations and animations are just 10/10 great job!!
I want this to be my job instead ;__;
Biol 220 gang what's goood? >>
maybe we won't need to be scientists, we would just give a prompt and it would create a better plant for us
Such a good Explanation. ♥️✨👍
Stop the fraud of climate change!
Climate change is the biggest scam in history.
I don't buy climate change when all those pushing it own beach front property and burn 100x more carbon than the average citizen. Think for your self, it is made up to manipulate you. Beside, you "fixing" the climate is more of a threat.
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The rubisco enzyme is purposely inefficient as we depict it. The enzyme needs to work in strict contact with ferredoxin which can catalyse some dangerous reactions resulting in ROS that can kill the plant if RuBisCo incorporates more O2 than CO2. This can happen in a CO2-less or lightless ambient, in which the inefficacy of rubisco prevents the death of plants. So nature and evolution nailed it as the way it is, and we cannot do that better.
That is why Trees need so many leafs in order to produce enough energy
great topic!
just found out the channel, and i'm hooked!
❤❤
Me and my homies hate and also love rubisco
Hi, I'm a Biotec student and I'm in mi second year. I got so interested in this topic and I would like to know how to know more about recent descoveries and investigation related with this. If someone can give me some advise I would be very grateful!!! This was really good video btw
Read "Landrace Gardening" by Joseph Lofthouse. The answers are under our feet, not in a lab
Might have something to do with the fact that it evolved at the time where earth atmosphere was 99% CO2 and now it's well below 0.1%.
I feel like RuBisCO is like that coconut.jpg in the Team Fortress 2 game files. It got put in the code at the very beginning and somehow became a vital part of it, so now you just can't mess around with it or else everything breaks. Evolution has been forced to keep RuBisCO there in its current state even though it's inefficient and makes no sense. That means slight changes to the protein probably make it even worse at it's job. Its stuck in a potential well it can't escape without a big push, but natural evolution doesn't work that way. You'd probably have to do a major redesign all at once to improve it, not just slight incremental changes. But if humans CAN intentionally redesign it to be more efficient outside of the evolutionary pressures on plant survival and then stick it back into plants, it could radically change life on this planet.
hubris
TASTE THE SUN!
Note: Evolution hasn't failed to improve RuBisCO, evolution just didn't have a reason to do so.
That doesn’t look that dense in coral compared to places off the coast of south east Asia
10k years ago yellowstone didnt even exist, the entire region was under a giant ice sheet like the arctic. this entire ecology worship is just false. it assumes the current equilibrium has some kind of harmony or inherent value in it, which it does not. there's no "need' for parasites nor is the current ecology inherently better. if the parasites for the bugs to go to water diminish, the water might get less clear and there'd be less of that trout, but that in itself is an equilibrium by itself. nobody sees a muddy river and be like "this is out of balance and wrong". coz at the end of the day it's all about perspective.
Make better intro. All life on earth owe existance to CO2. So if we burn down all fossil fuels and living things - we will not burn oceans and other B.S. we will make environment in which life started.
The parallels to tweaking a legacy software are high. Ignoring the potential to introduce bugs in the genome, you will hit race conditions and bottlenecks that can turn disastrous for us, the plant, or the ecosystem, but we have to start somewhere you cannot just sit a new dev and told him to create a new plant from scratch, make him learn on existing software first. Ideally of course a super-plant of our own creation would be the best, like a super version of the fortified yellow rice with proteins to construct vitamin A added.
I hate your tone/Intonation/ the way you talk. But i like your content.
"getting worse as the world gets hotter" 😂😂 world has been way hotter then now. Wasn't a problem.
Alpha Fold!
Maybe more efficient RuBisCO was produced at some time in the past, but those plant was draining microelements from earth too fast, so it became not suitable for plant life anymore, so they all died.
Just make sure these things stay in well controlled environments and don't spread into the wild. Otherwise we'll have an invasive mutant plant species problem that could wreak havoc on ecosystems.
everytime i see such incredibly well produced video with genuine work makes me wonder who its funded by (bill gates and the rockfeller foundation apparently) and it strikes me that its quality is what points out the external funding. no hate, there's no way to solve such an issue, nor does it need a solution.
Spruce beetles are helping to clear out invasive species in Germany
I think this should probably be restricted to algae and in door farming
Yeah! It’s the plants’ fault they can’t keep up with global climate change
Earth in the beginning was loaded with co2, then bacteria in the ocean start mass producing o2 in mass quantities. It was called ‘The Great Oxygenation’ event. Problem is it took millions of years. It’s a scale human will perish. So global warming change doesn’t affect earth, but it affect us and the recovery must be within 1 /2 human generation. So we are actually accelerating technology.
never going back to a gas stove, induction is just so much nicer to use, and quicker (I'm on 230v though, EU)
Hah. Is it problem from "insta nobel prize" list?
One of the greatest videos I've ever seen thank you.
wow
This is the kind of thing that will end the world, something that seems like a great idea and beneficial to everyone, and then some plant sucks all the carbon out of the air and we all die....lol
Correct me if im wrong buuutttt..... isn't the planet now 20% greener than it was 20 years ago ?! 😂
Don't listen to them plants, you're perfect as you are. Definitely an interesting endeavour considering, how we all live on photosynthesis. Maybe some day I can just shove salts and water into my mouth and absorb the energy of the sun directly.
youtube algorithm fail, I've been here for years and _now_ you tell me about the Grist youtube channel??
I am so sorry, but why not a clear presentation ?
ohhhh Grist has a KZread channel? ❤
I am rubisco
Why don't we have better RuBisCO now? Would be nice if the video also explained why all the scientists failed for 80 years. I'm sure growing bacteria and force evolution was already done for decades.
this sounds like truley terrifingly bad idea. scientific hubris driven by greed .