Incredible Discovery of an Entirely New Organelle That Fixes Nitrogen

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a never before seen organelle found in life called nitroplast
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0:00 Complexity of life
0:40 Symbiosis and organelles
2:35 Another organelle from more recent times
3:30 Endosymbiotic theory
4:00 Nitrogen and plants
5:15 New organelle that fixes nitrogen
5:50 Strange organism that possesses this
8:00 Confirmations
8:40 Important organism overall
9:20 Using this for plants?
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@ENDESGA 25 дней назад

*THEY FOUND ME!*

@DickGallo-dk7wi 25 дней назад

😂

@user-it7lf7kk8m 25 дней назад

Now its your turn. Count to 100

@Atok595 25 дней назад

Jesus or aliens?

@VanBurenOfficial 25 дней назад

Ladies and gentlemen we got em

@MartinDxt 25 дней назад

You are so 12 sided!

@NemencioRas 25 дней назад

Imagine mitochondria, chloroplasts and nitroplast, all integrated into one sigle organism. Such organism can thrive anywhere there's water, CO2, N2 and light.

@spanner5940 25 дней назад

Yea that's just a legume. Last time I checked Kidney beans haven't taken over the world yet

@Whatisthisstupidfinghandle 25 дней назад

@@spanner5940yet

@jasonlow6943 25 дней назад

Crisper we have a big ask in mind...

@NemencioRas 25 дней назад

@@jasonlow6943... like: Crisper can I be modified so I can have my own Nitrogen fixing and fotosynthesis under my skin and then say good-bye to the food industries? haha 🤭

@tommy-er6hh 24 дня назад

Would we call it....a triffid?

@rickw0226 24 дня назад

Discoveries like this usually never come to light in mainstream media because it is thought that most consumers aren't interested. Anton begs to differ. Best channel on RU-vid!

@gyrogearloose1345 22 дня назад

Why name us as 'consumers' Sir? Consumers of knowledge? Quite impossible in my view . . .

@rickw0226 22 дня назад

@@gyrogearloose1345 Consumers of Ideas. There is no "knowledge" per say.

@PartlyXenon 21 день назад

1. Based on your sentence and common usage, “media” would be the thing we consume 2. Per se* (both Latin words) 3. Forgive me 🙇🏻‍♀️

@rickw0226 21 день назад

@@PartlyXenon I stand corrected on both counts.

@gyrogearloose1345 20 дней назад

@@PartlyXenon Tibi gratias ago pro responso tuo. Miror quid sibi velit.

@jounik 25 дней назад

An organelle fixing atmospheric nitrogen is a pretty important find. Kudos to Anton for prompt reporting!

@TheReferrer72 24 дня назад

Yes add it to plants what can go wrong?

@sindrek8 24 дня назад

@TheReferrer72 nothing at all! Its not like Nitrogen is, *checks notes* 78% of the atmosphere!

@ginnyjollykidd 24 дня назад

That is, beyond legumes and kudzu.

@ginnyjollykidd 24 дня назад

@@TheReferrer72Plenty! Kudzu grows fast and can fix nitrogen. It can grow over other plants, cut out their source of sunlight, and outcompete other plants. Rangers say jokingly but seriously, "When you're cutting kudzu, you don't stand in one place for very long." Plants created with these nitroplasts might work, but you'll have to watch them like kudzu. I wonder if they can be introduced into cotton so it could be grown year round?

@seanmadson8524 24 дня назад

@@ginnyjollykidd I imagine this would only be introduced into plants we want, like crops, and probably in controlled environments at first, but the benefits could be worth it

@AnglophobiaIsevil7 25 дней назад

Omg engineering nitroplast into grain crops like wheat, rice, and corn would be an insane game changer. I mean we could finally use a lot of previously abandoned soils and it would be a revolution equal to the discovering of ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer in the late 1800's. Wow i hope i live to see that level of jump in our agriculture

@RALL123456 25 дней назад

True, it must have great potential. I feel however almost threatened by this news. This is huge. It could disrupt in a major way the land based ecosystems.. we would give this organism a step up that alters the course of evolution in a unpredictable way. But theres no stopping humankind 😅

@cso6565 25 дней назад

Create the nitroplast-into-plants foundation to make it happen

@shadowhenge7118 25 дней назад

You could grow plants in no soil at all. So long as you had water and co2 plus the other trace elents needed, you would never see fallow soil again.

@kreynolds1123 25 дней назад

I suspect that adding nitroplast to plants would cause them to consume more energy as the nitroplast fix nitrogen. It might mean slower growth and fewer carbohydrates in fruits and vegetables, while increasing the capacity growth in nitrogen poor soils without having to add fertaliser. But it would be wonderful to have grasses make nitrogen and reclame lands poor in nitrogen. Maybe it would be better to grow nitrogen fixing bacteria in vats. Could we make it less energy intensive than haber-bosch process?

@SebaBuenoHaceMusiquitaJijiji 25 дней назад

FREE AUTOMATED FARMS!!! FREE FOOD PLEEAASEEE 😢🙏

@michaellee6489 25 дней назад

This is why I love this channel. It's not always about the outer Universe, instead being about the Earth, Life, and it's own mysteries. Thank You and Stay Wonderful, Anton

@robertunderwood1011 24 дня назад

Agree Anton has excellent taste in his selection of scientific news

@estebanjorquera4606 24 дня назад

Anton, a small correction, I'm fairly sure that the consensus is that mitochondria were the first endosymbiotic event, considering that this idea is supported by phylogenetic analysis indicating that they are an earlier development. And more importantly, plants/algae have both mitochondria and chloroplasts, in this case, if chloroplasts were first this would mean that mitochondria were assimilated twice, or that we are descended from algae and lost our chloroplasts during evolution. Anyway, great video!.

@MichaelSmith-lm5sl 22 дня назад

You make a fair point about the evidence supporting mitochondria being the earlier endosymbiotic event. Let me re-examine the evidence on both sides: The phylogenetic analyses indicating mitochondria evolved prior to chloroplasts is certainly compelling evidence in favor of that sequence of events. As you note, if chloroplasts had formed first, it would require two separate mitochondrial endosymbioses or primary loss of chloroplasts, both of which seem less parsimonious than a single mitochondrial endosymbiosis followed later by chloroplast acquisition. However, some researchers have argued that early interactions between prokaryotes leading to hydrogenosome or mitosome lineages muddy the chloroplast vs. mitochondrion branching order interpretation from phylogenies. And the metabolic capabilities of plastids could theoretically have evolved first if ancient cyanobacteria occupied photoautotrophic niches prior to aerobic conditions favoring mitochondrial respiration. Ultimately, you make a valid point - the mitochondrial-then-chloroplast scenario does minimize evolutionary steps needed. And the presence of both organelles in plants/algae supports mitochondria coming before plastids was the ancestral scenario. While alternative models have been proposed, the consensus view does seem to be that mitochondria represent the earlier endosymbiotic event based on current evidence

@stanleydavidson6543 9 дней назад

Im a believer in adaptation, not evolution we did not come from a lower life form

@tomholroyd7519 25 дней назад

4:37 This is the thing with "airponics" or "hydroponics", there are literally thousands of important species in the soil, to the point where the soil is considered to be an organism on its own. Sure, monocultures can exist for a while, but did I mention biodiversity. In a recent lecture at the NIH a researcher asked the audience, "How many species are involved in the growth of an apple?" Expecting the answer, apple trees, and bees, and maybe some ants, and the researcher interrupted to say, "the answer is, We Don't Know, we are still counting." The soil is alive, it's a biome, fungi, plants, bacteria, archae, and I am reminded EVERY SPRING when the soil wakes up and spews spores into the air

@Krunch2020 25 дней назад

Huh??

@epistemologicalnihilist5746 24 дня назад

@@Krunch2020he's saying, like how a bacteria is an organism, the totality of whats relative to soil acts exactly how an organism would due to the unknown quantity of microorganisms within the soil.

@darylbrown8834 24 дня назад

Symbiosis. 👍

@billable1861 24 дня назад

When you think of it a fish tank is a biome like this too with circulation. Just like you can make a mini rainforest in a jar. The earth is a biome or organelle. Just like how he was talking about fractals the other day there are a lot of things infinitely repeating on a micro and macro level.

@keithhowell4138 24 дня назад

You could say the world with all its galaxies is a biome

@cipsahoy9639 25 дней назад

6:55 A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON

@iambiggus 25 дней назад

...still better than picking up that stupid "Unusual Gem".

@urishima 25 дней назад

GOD DAMN IT!

@brosephbroman7564 25 дней назад

Lol I just posted the same comment. Great minds think alike.

@Bibrius 25 дней назад

I freaked out when I saw it, damn PTSD. I heard her voice too!

@XKathXgames 24 дня назад

LISTEN! HEAR ME AND OBEY!

@michaelkennedy8270 25 дней назад

Once in a while Anton imparts something that fractures my scientific viewpoint and makes me mouth 'wow' at what I'm hearing. This is one of these moments.

@Serge_82 25 дней назад

Well, science constantly changes that's how it works until better science is discovered and proven.

@cosmicraysshotsintothelight 24 дня назад

I wish I was a tenth as smart as this guy. Hello, Wonderful Instructor!

@EricDMMiller 24 дня назад

What is so surprising about this?

@cosmicraysshotsintothelight 24 дня назад

@@EricDMMiller I guess then that you do not number among the smart asses, even though it appears that you are trying very hard.

@_ninthRing_ 24 дня назад

I know what you mean & I already know plenty of science. I hope I never get to the stage where science is no longer wondrous to me, when I stop going wow at some astonishing new discovery.

@rodylermglez 25 дней назад

This discovery is amazing; a very strong evidence for the theory of endosymbiosis and thus a revolution in biology. Life is truly weird.

@turtletom8383 25 дней назад

It wouldn't surprise me if the microbiome helps produce mitochondria maybe through horizontal gene transfer

@Michaelno 25 дней назад

I wish I knew what you were talking about. It sounds important

@basketcaseface813 24 дня назад

@@Michaelno endosymbiosis is the thoery that organelles were originally their own living thing that, somewhere down the line of history, were absorbed by something else and lived in co-harmony. there is some strong evidence to suggest that something like mitochondria were at one point their own separate living thing, but were absorbed by one of our extremely early ancestors and then lived in harmony. i simplified it heavily but you get the idea.

@tom-hy1kn 24 дня назад

@@basketcaseface813 Their own living things? They can no more live on their own as your heart can live on its own without the rest of your body. Machines inside the cell read DNA and make the organelles, they don't just pop out of a magic pond.

@Prabhu108. 24 дня назад

@@basketcaseface813 Wait so if they were absorbed then how were they present in their next generation? Shouldn't only the organism that absorbed them exist?

@kamuroshow4884 24 дня назад

Introducing this nitroplast into plant cells would be a huge gamechanger. The scientist who can pull that off is going to be rich. Very rich

@Alicorn_ 24 дня назад

I'm no biologist, but I assume it more complicated than simply getting nitroplast symbiosis within plant cells (which already sounds difficult). If plants are relying on a culture of bacteria surrounding their roots to fix the nitrogen, then some new system would have to be created for the plant to get the nitroplasts into the soil, or somehow suck in surrounding soil/air nitrogen.

@erkinalp 24 дня назад

@@Alicorn_ or alter the skin structure of the leafs to allow efficient nitrogen fixation (they still need roots for anatomic reasons)

@BruderRaziel 24 дня назад

The "scientist" or rather the group of scientists who pull that off aren´t going to be rich, the corporation they work for will be even more super ultra rich. The grunts who do the work might not even get a raise.

@retrictumrectus1010 23 дня назад

On the flip side, any scientist or corporation that tries it but fails will be bankrupt, or at least their investors are.

@AlleluiaElizabeth 25 дней назад

The possibilities for plants that could fix their own nitrogen are awesome.

@rubenperez181 24 дня назад

I am currently doing an internship in a Munich lab studying this topic. It will be very hard, but promising :)

@ruthnovena40 24 дня назад

Why break what is not broken..

@thorr18BEM 24 дня назад

@@ruthnovena40the system is already broken. Something like 50% of the billions of people on the planet works starve to death if we stopped using nitrogen fertilizer. If the species had stopped growing several billion ago, I would agree with you. We are currently enslaved to a fertilizer process which pumps ridiculous amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. That atmosphere is nearly broken now as well and we won't be stopping any time soon.

@AlleluiaElizabeth 23 дня назад

@@ruthnovena40 Mitochondria and chloroplasts were a win.

@brosephbroman7564 25 дней назад

*A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON!*

@Seredhieal 23 дня назад

Thats what it reminded me as well! Skyrim will be always special!!

@brosephbroman7564 23 дня назад

@@Seredhieal Always indeed!

@JohnJStanton 19 дней назад

I have subscriptions to Science and Nature (it is hard to believe how inexpensive you can get it, $50-$75 per year each), but I really absorb what Anton presents much better. There are a few channels where theoretical physicists leave me in the dust when they start to talk about non-locality and Bell’s Theorem, even quantum computing and entanglement can be rough, but Anton is just that perfect speed for me. So, thanks Anton for making science papers and breakthroughs accessible.

@Apeiron242 25 дней назад

I want to know who is breaking all the nitrogen in the first place.

@jessicatymczak5852 25 дней назад

Mushrooms

@Adallace 25 дней назад

😑

@DrTed3 25 дней назад

Thanks for the dad joke.

@Gelatinocyte2 25 дней назад

Us eukaryotic cells.

@einyv 24 дня назад

John Wick

@sharonminsuk 24 дня назад

Fascinating! Just to be clear, plant cells have *_both_* chloroplasts *_and_* mitochondria. This is something a lot of beginning biology students get a little wrong, thinking that they represent a contrast between plants and animals: one organelle for plants and the other for animals. But no, mitochondria are essential! Plants have both. (This also makes me wonder about your comment that chloroplasts came first; is that known for sure? It's possible, but it would make more sense for mitochondria to have come first, since they are shared among a more distant common ancestor.) One thing I don't think was mentioned in this video... have they determined what living bacterium is most closely related to these nitroplasts? It would be interesting to know. Similar analyses have identified what living bacteria are most closely related to mitochondria and chloroplasts. (In fact, I just looked it up, and apparently the bacterium most closely related to chloroplasts just happens to be a nitrogen-fixing bacterium, which might add an additional interesting wrinkle to this story.)

@tsm688 24 дня назад

current consensus is mitochondria came first, supported by genetic evidence, but not a 100% certain thing.

@sharonminsuk 24 дня назад

@@tsm688 Thanks. I figured!

@Nerdmonides 22 дня назад

It's a Cyanobacteria that was "swallowed" by an algae

@SirCharles12357 25 дней назад

Mind blown! You did it again Anton! Mother nature never ceases to amaze me! Both Macro and Micro wonders!

@johngleeman8347 24 дня назад

Legumes, red alders, and a few other plants can fix nitrogen as part of their actual root systems (root nodules) as opposed to an exchange with bacteria in the soil itself (though I believe it is more of a cell to cell interdependence of the plants and bacteria, versus the cellular level incorporation Anton is talking about). This is really neat. Having all plants able to fix nitrogen on their own without bacteria helping and without substantial nitrogen amendments would be a huge game-changer for agriculture.

@erkinalp 24 дня назад

And even better, having plants that can fix nitrogen using their leafs

@cullendwyer7441 7 дней назад

Yes, for example soybean root nodules host Frankia bacteria which fix gaseous nitrogen to a usable form. But how do the bacteria do it? Do they, in turn, host a former symbiot organelle, or do they poses the ability in their own genetic makeup?

@JennySimon206 4 часа назад

Or we upset the balance of nature. There must be a reason not all plants fix nitrogen.

@davidpescod7573 24 дня назад

Many thanks Anton for describing this incredible discovery

@testboga5991 25 дней назад

I really enjoy your videos! It's so great to have somebody who doesn't just trade in clickbait. Keep it up! 👍

@PlanetZeroVideos 24 дня назад

Tyler Coale used to work in the research lab I’m currently in, seeing him on your channel is mind blowing

@FirstLast-ml7yf 25 дней назад

Thanks for covering inner space as well...

@kelsyclark221 24 дня назад

They have discovered the tiniest D12 ever. The dice goblin within me now wants a microscope

@erinmac4750 23 дня назад

I was thinking that my D12 is now Nitroplast!

@RED911 25 дней назад

Outstanding work!!!putting a lot of very complex information to make sense of our world with significance. Thank you so much!

@benoloughlin1557 24 дня назад

Wow, I was trying to find your email and make a suggestion you cover this story as it appears really amazing and could be a great subject for an episode! I’m going to enjoy watching this video later tonight!!

@iLLeag7e 24 дня назад

Anton, you are the most dedicated science communicator I've ever known of and I really appreciate you digging through all these papers to find such relevant / amazing stuff for me to learn. Thanks buddy

@SoulDelSol 25 дней назад

I read about this earlier today and my first thought was Anton will cover this!

@tompowers8495 24 дня назад

Anton.....you get the best cutting edge science......I really enjoy your content and presentation.....looking forward to more ........😊.

@JeffMartin1 25 дней назад

Hey Anton, thanks for another amazing video, and btw we look forward to hearing your thoughts about the reconnection with Voyager 1. Who can not be astonished that we can reboot and troubleshoot a vintage computer that is 15 billion miles away

@erinmac4750 23 дня назад

Truth! Voyager has blown my mind at its performance.

@belial666ukr 25 дней назад

I feel like its my birthday every time anton posts not boring black hole/dark metter video, but tru science content. I learn here a lot, thank you

@sarahchristine2345 25 дней назад

I love the way Anton says nitrogen!

@johnsmiff8328 25 дней назад

The return to biology is great to see!

@stevedavis1437 25 дней назад

Totally fascinating. Thank you, Anton! Yours is absolutely one of the best channels on RU-vid :-)

@thesilentgod7863 24 дня назад

Putting this into plants will be a revolution as game changing as the discovery of fire

@Yaivenov 24 дня назад

A nitroplast enhanced chlorophyll plant sounds like the world's most invasive species just waiting to happen.

@adamus 24 дня назад

This was so well put together. As always 🙌

@dasbroisku 24 дня назад

This is super interesting! Great job covering this Anton!

@jamesnasmith984 25 дней назад

Very clearly explained. Thank you.

@lobabobloblaw 25 дней назад

Thanks for another awesome video Anton. 🙏

@jimcurtis9052 25 дней назад

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 😁

@axisonconsole9192 24 дня назад

Hello wonderful anton. Thank you for more science news and updates. Stay amazing, stay awesome.

@TarisRedwing 24 дня назад

Amazing I very look forward to future updates on this topic!

@Snoopyzell 25 дней назад

Really interesting. Thanks.

@YouTube_is_full_of_trolls 25 дней назад

Cells are an example of society at its finest. A give and take that ends jn a beautiful life. It's so weird how complex our bodies are, and it's all so beautiful.

@fredericbaue 20 дней назад

This is literally mind blowing. Your best video yet! Thank you.

@dots3v3n35 23 дня назад

there is such a wealth of information from these videos. You are clearly not english first language but you explain really complicated stuff without using the big technical words. Props for learning english and reading abstractions and dumbing it down so that all of us peasants can actually understand what's going on. Eric Weinstein mentioned how there are no explanations of where we are in science that a normal person could understand and now education is turning into a club of rich people because it takes money to go to a college or University. This is God's work you're doing man, seriously, thank you so much for what you do.

@paulmccaffrey2985 25 дней назад

I think we should let nature handle introducing nitroplasts. However, it could be an interesting terraforming technique.

@Gelatinocyte2 25 дней назад

That's never going to happen in nature alone.

@2019inuyasha 24 дня назад

Perhaps this could ability could be given to bacteria that is then used as a safer fertilizer.

@Gelatinocyte2 20 дней назад

@@2019inuyasha Bacteria already do that, and they're already present in the soil; the problem is how the plants can make use of them more effectively, if at all. Of course the solution is to make an endosymbiont out of them, and it turns out they already exist which is the subject of this video.

@MyraSeavy 25 дней назад

So very interesting!! 😊

@sarahleehooper6973 24 дня назад

The plant Azolla has a symbiotic relationship with Anabaena azollae that provides nitrogen to the fern using nitrogen fixation, and the fern provides a habitat for the alga. It’s amazing! The organisms have evolved together for millions of years. Wish more people knew about it! Please look into it!

@marcfruchtman9473 24 дня назад

Great info. Thank you for making this video.

@pressuredrop1 25 дней назад

Fascinating and informative as always.

@runnerthemoose 25 дней назад

Sounds like the The Blight from Interstellar, an organism the consumes nitrogen but kills all current plant life..

@lpeabody 24 дня назад

Yeahhhh that was my first thought when I read the announcement last week. Yikes. Scary stuff.

@muzzac3408 24 дня назад

There is this common idea - and one I used to share - that the endosymbionts were 'engulfed' by their host bacteria. But I know there are people in the field who are advancing the idea that the ancestor of the eukaryotic cell was actually a colony of cells, each specialized in some way. So the internal structures in eukaryotic cells arose from the superstructure of the colonies.

@ministerofjoy 24 дня назад

Thank you Anton, I was so hyped to know more about this recently discovered organelle❤

@SAOS451316 24 дня назад

If plants started having nitroplasts we would have a big problem. That's a huge evolutionary advantage and whatever organisms are given such genes will quickly become invasive. It's not something that can naturally evolve any time soon so there's no way for other plants to compete or cooperate with them. Any nitrogen-poor soil would be overrun and converted to nitrogen-rich soil which is bad news for entire biomes. Genetic engineering is a powerful tool but it must be used carefully and with wisdom. Look at golden rice versus Monsanto corn; the former feeding millions of people and the latter destroying swathes of farmland. Let us hope that it remains a difficult tool to use and no one invents a gene printer.

@s.schattenprophet 25 дней назад

Yeah, let's engineer a plant with nitroplasts. If it's escapes the lab..... and spreads like weed, superseding all plants.... what can go wrong?

@Gelatinocyte2 25 дней назад

Plants don't spread like viruses; any lab leaks of experimental plants is vastly way easier to manage or control.

@akra9304 10 дней назад

the dinosaur family ending irl

@SB4F 24 дня назад

Anton you are the only [science] RU-vidr without a PhD I listen to. Anytime I research topics you cover, I find you stay true to the science and the only assumptions you seem to make are when you first give us an opinion warning.

@theblackswan2373 24 дня назад

Fascinating. Imagine the effect on staple crops like corn if they could fix their own nitrogen.

@DeltaHydrixian 25 дней назад

LOAD UP THE NITROPLAST

@Adallace 25 дней назад

The nitroplasts are coming for us 😱

@Happy_Broom 25 дней назад

Cultivating nitroplasts |edit: Coccolithophores| to produce a nitrogen rich agricultural lime seems a more doable implementation and less of a potential sci-fi killer tomato thriller than genetically modifying plants to produce their own nitrogen.

@amlord3826 25 дней назад

But CRISPR is so cool... until we have zombie tomatoes

@Gelatinocyte2 25 дней назад

Slippery slope

@awillis2676 23 дня назад

I always enjoy these videos. Thank you for bringing them to us.

@Relaxbrother18860 5 дней назад

Absolutely wonderful educational as always. I watch these twice to enjoy and learn hands down one of the best. Thanks million.

@mojeimja 24 дня назад

Let me remind you a premise for "Interstellar" movie. In 2067 a lifeform "blight" destroys plants, to the point of famines and dust storms being a usual everywhere on the planet. So humanity must find another planet to live. Blight breathes nitrogen and destroys oxygen in the atmosphere in the process and is unstoppable. So lets just be very careful while trying to integrate this new "nitroplast" in our plants. :)

@PasqualItizzz 25 дней назад

You shouldn't that lemur licking your hair, that's how I lost mine.

@tearren1 22 дня назад

One of the most interesting aspects of this to me is the pentagon shape arrangement of the organism.

@alanmolox2095 2 дня назад

I love when scientists say "And at some point something happened..." - We all know what happened, it did a "Leap-Evo", that's an evolutionary step that can't be explained.

@quicktastic 25 дней назад

If you don't exercise, all of this slows down and you become weaker and weaker, eventually unable to fight off disease.

@silicon1138 24 дня назад

Absolutely fascinating. Biology completely humbles me in it's complexity, even more so now! Thank you for Another mind blowing video Anton - you rock!

@fredmac1000 23 дня назад

Thank you for all the wonderful information that you are providing us,,,🌷🌷👏👏🙏🙏

@johntresemer5631 23 дня назад

gotta admit, Anton, you rock. I would love to understand half of what you do. I have a small museum with a grapefruit size duodecahedron model purchased from the Portland Art Museum, that I used to think was just a beautiful geometric shape. So I am thrilled to see that its “sacred geometry” is applied in the natural world. Thanks for the tip!

@greghelton4668 25 дней назад

What a perspective to think of our bodies as an aggregation of disparate symbiotic organisms working together. There’s a RU-vid doctor, Jason Fung, who talks about cancer from that perspective. Truly amazing and mysterious.

@coachcal4876 День назад

There are already nitrogen fixing legume plants. Dr white has also uncovered how the roots eat some of these bacteria and they are trapped inside the roots. I don’t really like the sound of genetically modifying anymore plants or microbes. We don’t have a very good long term track record when we do this. Thank you for the video. Fascinating topics yet again!

@mOTHgOBLIN 24 дня назад

Hello, Anton! One thing that I've wondered about is how much time you generally spend a day finding and reading research articles/papers? It amazes me that you consistently find such incredibly interesting topics to discuss.

@MrCardeso 25 дней назад

It's a great time to be alive to witness all of these advancements in all areas of knowledge.

@felhomaly 24 дня назад

The remote resemblances are also interesting: nitrogen fixing heterocysts of some filamentous cyanobacteria.

@davidregen1358 17 дней назад

Much appreciated enlightenment.

@drewstead316 День назад

The main difference between chloroplasts and mitochondria is that chloroplasts actually start as more of a programmable generic organelle before developing into a chloroplast with a plant cell.

@Taomantom 25 дней назад

Hello Anton! First Fractals and now geometric shapes are learning to use nitrogen. Fascinating last couple of days! ;-}

@asinglebraincell6584 24 дня назад

It's hard not to love Anton, bringing us interesting science and deepening our understanding and appreciation for the world and universe. Thank you Anton !

@UnKnown-xs7jt 24 дня назад

Thanks 4 this presentation

@grudev 23 дня назад

love your in depth and yet explained like for a 5 graders topics! Your channel is awesome Anton, but why no monetisation (ads)? Did youtube being youtube again?

@norb6492 17 дней назад

Not to forget to give credit to Lynn Margulis for reviving and expanding modern endosymbiosis theory. You’ll like her. Quite the iconoclastic scientist.

@OldieBugger 24 дня назад

Thank you for this very interesting information.

@Bassotronics 24 дня назад

So awesome! Thanks Anton!

@Anawsomeplauge 24 дня назад

The unknown impacts of putting nitrogen fixation into plants and having them potentially eject their microbial associations sounds like an ecological nightmare.

@randallpetroelje3913 25 дней назад

Hey Anton, I love you and I want to thank you for all the scientific input and inspiration. I’m activity is a hard thing to keep in science and you are the guy to keep that objective I thank you

@XxskidudekidxX 19 дней назад

Awesome video. Thank you

@lpeabody 24 дня назад

Was wondering when you'd get around to covering this!

@user-lt4pw7rv2l 24 дня назад

I have watched many videos in the last few years. This one just freaks me out so much nothing I’ve ever seen challenges, my attitudes and beliefs, and watching those fractal objects in my new form without explanation for forming.

@yvonnemiezis5199 24 дня назад

Very interesting information, exciting,tnanks👍🤗

@lucash7012 24 дня назад

Blows my mind that this video still has significantly less views than all of his recent videos. This is big news, and shows we’ve just barely scratched the surface of biology and that there are likely so many other species and biological systems hiding right under our noses! I hope Anton continues to cover biology discoveries in between the other content, but I’m here for all of it either way!

@shmackydoodRon 24 дня назад

The chloroplast is the solar farm of the cell. The Golgi body is the post office of the cell. This new organelle is the Dow Chemical of the cell.

@Kwauhn. 24 дня назад

I can't unsee metapod in the thumbnail

@wleizero 24 дня назад

I love this unique flavor of space/life news!

@stevenlewis4376 21 день назад

Fossil fuel derived fertilizer is the backbone of the world food supply. Nitroplasts could give us a sustainable option. Amazing.

@SpydrXIII 24 дня назад

i would love if we could perfect some crop plants like this. nature only does what is good enough, you can always help improve it. you just have to be ridiculously careful and paranoid about doing it.