Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried.… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
“With my simple engineering mind I was throughout optimistic and, therefore, carried the project through. I was naive enough to believe in its success.” — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
