# How supercharged plants could slow climate change

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2019
- Speaker: Joanne Chory
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/joanne_chory_how_supercharged_plants_could_slow_climate_change)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Plants are amazing machines -- for millions of years, they've taken carbon dioxide out of the air and stored it underground, keeping a crucial check on the global climate. Plant geneticist Joanne Chory is working to amplify this special ability: with her colleagues at the Salk Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, she's creating plants that can store more carbon, deeper underground, for hundreds of years. Learn more about how these supercharged plants could help slow climate change. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

## Lectures

1. [How supercharged plants could slow climate change](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/joanne_chory_how_supercharged_plants_could_slow_climate_change/1ddc7a894705), 14 min (TED's player)