GATEWAY TO THE 2ND GREEN REVOLUTION
do you ever stop
and think yourself well observing the
world around you or while on a stroll
outside
plants grow way too slow
well i had this question about two and a
half years back
and today i’m going to share with you my
journey on how i
tackled that very question greetings
everyone
i’m joe lg and i’ve been doing research
in the field of plant growth and
development
for the past few years mainly i’ve been
trying to solve
two problems firstly food
scarcity the rate of food production
cannot really
keep up with the rate of increase of the
population
and its needs and it’s not that we don’t
have enough food on earth
it’s that it’s not distributed properly
or equally
and due to that there’s food scarcity in
many parts of the globe
and secondly slow of forestation
as we speak right now there is
deforestation happening somewhere around
the world
and as you know deforestation is a very
fast process and compared to that
a forest station takes years to bear
fruit
it could take up to 10 20 30 40 years
to have fully grown trees again and in
some cases
many more years so what’s the root
cause to both of these problems
well i can easily say it’s mismanagement
caused by human beings it’s our own
fault
we are not managing our resources
properly
but well we have known this reason for a
very long time
and have been trying to solve the
problems at hand
but as you can see and as you know we
aren’t able to make
much of a difference and we just keep
blaming ourselves
over and over again so
let’s try to find another problem that
can
solve these issues
well let’s see plants
grow way too slow
what if there was a way to make plants
grow
much faster and
i’ve been doing research in this field
so what if i told you i was able to make
plants grow
up to ten percent faster that would be
good
what if i told you i was able to make
plants grow up to
two times faster that would be great
and what if i told you i was able to
make plants grow up to
three times faster that would be
astounding
well i’m proud and happy to tell you
that i was able to make plants grow up
to four
times faster let me put that into
perspective
suppose a plant takes about one whole
year
to fully grow and bear fruit
i will be able to make that plant grow
fully
and bear fruit in less than three months
so from one whole year to three months
we can have four product cycles
four times the productivity four
times the growth well
since i’ve put that in perspective you
might be having a question in your mind
how with what
how is this even possible well
it’s because of a stenchy old gas
that we know as hydrogen sulfide
well we know hydrogen sulfide as being
stinky having the smell of rotten eggs
and well other than that we know that
it’s a by-product
in many reactions that we do in high
school
and beyond that we know
it’s a byproduct in you know
natural processes but other than that we
don’t really
know much about hydrogen sulfide
but in recent research there has been
speculation
that hydrogen sulfide could be involved
in the signaling process within the
plant
basically telling the plant to produce
this much hormones
at this time so i thought to myself
what if i supplied hydrogen sulfide
exogenously
because well trying sulfide is
speculated to even
help the plant in defense responses
and make the plant grow better as a
whole
so then i thought i’ll start off with
a few experiments i started off
with using beans and usually
beans take about four weeks to grow and
bear fruit
at least the sample which i was using
and
my experimented sample with which i
supplied hydrogen sulfide
was able to grow fully and bear fruit in
one
week from four weeks to one week
and well i was surprised and that’s when
i knew
that i was onto something big
something that could change the world
so then i continued with a lot of
experiments
doing research every single day testing
out the soil testing out the plant
samples
testing out what differences that we can
gain
but today i’ll be talking about my
most recent experiment and that’s using
okra prawns almost more commonly known
as
lady’s finger i had about 95 plants
and i split them into 10 groups each
group containing 10 plants and the last
one
containing five plants i kept those five
plants as
a control group you know the group which
experienced
normal growth without any sort of
changes done to them
the other groups were supplied with
varying amounts of hydrogen sulfide
every single day
and as you can see through the graph
the growth difference is double
and well this graph is analyzing height
and it was not only the height that
increased as you can see from the
pictures
the plant looked much healthier
the stem girth was more
the leaf span was more the health of the
fruits
was much better the fruits were more
juicy
and overall the plant was more healthy
and as a bonus it grew faster and
produced
fruit faster i
truly believe that my solution
and my research can lead to the second
green revolution it can change the world
as we know it
and change the world of botany as a
whole
and well you might be thinking how do i
start
thinking about this like you know
hydrogen sulfide why would you relate it
with plants
and its growth well i’ll tell you
it all comes down to creative thinking
many of us i mean all of us
really are creative beings
what differentiates human beings from
every other creature on earth
that we are creative we have creativity
within us and if you think about it
many innovators of yesteryears
let their curiosity explode
they didn’t lock themselves up they were
not
limited to the information that they
were provided
they went further they explode
we are living in the world of the
internet where information is at our
fingertips we shouldn’t lock our
minds and just be fed information
that the schools want us to know or any
other organization
wants us to know you want to innovate
you want to bring in change to the world
you need to explore further
let your curiosity explode itself
well all of us had this part of our life
a long while back you know that
curiosity
which explodes itself which ran freely
sadly we lost it right after our
innocent
childhood days we should bring
that back if you think about it
innovators would have been known as
crazy people
doing random things with you know random
things around them
but today we respect them and appreciate
them
for their contribution to human society
we should go crazy like that
let our curiosity free
use the information that is there for us
keep thinking keep thinking creatively
and try to make an impact on this world
remember all of us have a flame of
passion within us
let that flame light the world ablaze
thank you