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提高粮食产量新方法——改变植物的保护系统

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研究发现,通过改变植物的保护系统可促进它们使用阳光的效率,从而提高粮食产量。
Hacking isn’t just for computers and smart phones. According to a study published last week in the journal Science , scientists have found a way to hack a plant’s genes to make it use sunlight more quickly.
Photosynthesis(光合作用) is the word used to describe how plants use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to make their own food, and it’s a very slow process. Plants use less than 1% of the energy available to them. But by hacking a plant’s genes, the scientists were able to increase leaf growth on plants between 14 and 20 percent in experiments.
Specifically, scientists hacked the plant’s protective system. “Normally, this system starts working when a plant gets too much sunlight,” said scientist Krishna Niyogi, co-author of the study. When the plant senses the light, it removes extra energy and creates more leaves. When the plant is in shade, the protective system is turned off. But the process is slow. And Stephen Long, the lead author of the study, compared a plant’s protective system to light-adjusting glasses. When a person wears the glasses outside during the day, the lenses darken and lighten depending on how sunny it is. “Plants do the same thing,” he said. But in plants the adjustment can take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour. This makes it hard for plants to get the right amount of sunlight needed to create food.
The new study sped up the process. By changing the plant’s genes, the protective system turned on and off more quickly than normal. As a result, leaf growth on the plants scientists used in the study increased. Leaf growth in two plants increased by 20%, while leaf growth on a third plant increased by 14%. Scientists conducted the study on tobacco plants. But they think the genetic changes would produce the same results in staples(主食) such as corn and rice.
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1 . According to the passage, what is the disadvantage of photosynthesis?

A.

It is easily influenced by weather.

B.

It makes plants produce much energy.

C.

It takes little time to function well.

D.

It makes plants absorb little energy available.

2 . What is the third paragraph mainly intended to show?

A.

How plants are influenced by sunlight.

B.

How a plant’s protective system works.

C.

How food is produced by plants using sunlight.

D.

How the protective system is similar to glasses.

3 . What can be inferred about the plant’s protective system from Paragraph 4?

A.

It works slowly but effectively.

B.

It is stable and unchangeable.

C.

It can be improved.

D.

It can be replaced.

4 . How can we produce more food according to the study?

A.

By exposing plants to much sunlight.

B.

By speeding up plants’ photosynthesis.

C.

By improving plants’ growing environment.

D.

By changing plants’ way of using sunlight.

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