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Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff (born 1942) is an American molecular biologist known for her research in life sciences and biotechnology, especially transposable elements or jumping genes. and plant stress response. In 2007, President George W. Bush awarded her the National Medal of Science, she is also a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology.

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India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

Country, Engineering, Institutions, Leader, Opportunity

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

Advice, Ears, Good, Influence, Science

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

Already, Cultivated, Grow, Grows, Land

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

Civilization, Food, Produce, Technology, Thanks

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

Agriculture, Ahead, Events, Kinds, Mechanization, Race

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 and grow crops.

Grow, Needs, People, Seven, Water

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

Earth, Everybody, Maybe, Population, Support

We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.

Climate, Conversation, Dark, Era, Issues

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

Animal, People, Sustain, World, Yield, Yields

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

Able, Accelerating, Genes, Lasts, Way, Ways

We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.

Carried, Like, Long, Sometimes, Trucks, Years

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

Continue, Decrease, Global, Growth, People, Support

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

Multiple, Needs, Resistant, Weed, Weeds

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

Add, Benign, Disease, Older, Pests

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 you buy in the fall.

Change, Everybody, Fall, Jumping, Organisms, Stripes

For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.

Art, Details, Different, Experiments, Small, Speak

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 food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.

Climate, Energy, Needs, Realizing, Ship, Waste

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 a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.

Agriculture, Damage, Dna, Evolution, People