Rhizobia is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria up to 3 micrometers long and without it, that sort of agricultural production is impossible.

根瘤菌是一种长达3微米的固氮菌，没有它，不可能实现这种农业生产规模的。

That could be valuable in parts of viticulture's New World, such as Australia, where vines remain ungrafted and phylloxera is still a problem.

这在栽植新世界的部分地区可能很有价值，比如澳大利亚，在这些地方，藤仍是非嫁接的，并且根瘤蚜虫仍是一个问题。

From Britain, this theory went, phylloxera reached the European mainland via the south of France, the first place where it devastated vineyards.

该理论认为，根瘤蚜虫从英国经法国南部传入欧洲大陆。它首先是破坏了法国的。

Nineteenth-century agronomists rapidly divined that phylloxera had come from North America.

19世纪的农学家迅速推断，根瘤蚜虫来自北美。

Blocking the action of this, they hoped, would phylloxera-proof all vines. But here the sequencing project produced a disappointment.

他们，止这一行为可以防止所有的藤出现根瘤蚜虫。但基因排序项目的结果令人失。

The work now begins of teasing out what each of those genes does, and, ultimately, how phylloxera manipulates a plant and adapts to a new host.

现在的工作是弄清楚每个基因的作用是什么，以及根瘤蚜虫最终如何操控植物并适应新的宿主。

And these nodules do an amazing thing.

这些根瘤做了一件了不起的事情。

This little Acacia grows these nodules, especially when they're young like this and inside of those nodules live ants, an entire colony of ants in this tree.

这种小金合欢长出这些根瘤，尤其是当它们像这样年轻的时候， 这些根瘤里面住着蚂蚁，这棵树上有一整群蚂蚁。

When vineyards in Burgundy were ravaged by the phylloxera parasite in the 1880s, French winemakers began importing wine from elsewhere and sold it as Burgundy.

1880 年代， 当勃艮第的遭到根瘤蚜寄生虫的破坏时，法国酿酒师开始从其他地方进口酒， 并以勃艮第酒的名义出售。

Rhizobia is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria up  to 3 micrometers long and without it, that sort of agricultural production is impossible.

根瘤菌是一种固氮细菌， 长达3微米， 没有它，这种农业产量是不可能实现的。

One, observing that legumes grow special root nodules to house nitrogen-fixing bacteria, is to reshape the roots of cereals.

一项观察表明， 豆科植物会长出特殊的根瘤来容纳固氮细菌，因此可以重塑谷物的根部。

The other is the identification of a type of symbiotic nitrogen fixing that does not rely on root nodules.

另一种是识别一种不依赖根瘤的共生氮气固定类型。

Now this work is not yet published, but using this knowledge and getting the networking of those pre-existing genetic components right, we have now been able to engineer nodules in non-legumes.

目前这项工作尚未发表， 但借助这一知识并正确构建这些预存遗传组件的网络，我们现已成功在非豆科植物中培育出了根瘤。

He and his colleagues have identified two leguminous genes that, when transplanted to poplars, a common experimental plant, cause them to grow nodules too.

他和他的同事识别出了两种豆科植物的基因，当将这些基因移植到杨树（一种常见的实验植物）中时，会导致杨树也长出根瘤。

Rice is the main target, so that they grow similar nodules.

水稻是主要目标，因此它们会长出类似的根瘤。

And one of the really important tweaks is to link that symbiosis signaling pathway to root organogenesis to make the nodules that are able to accommodate those nitrogen fixing bacteria.

其中一个非常重要的改进是将这种共生信号通路与根器官发生联系起来，以形成能够容纳这些固氮细菌的根瘤。

So on the roots of this soybean plant are nodules.

在这株大豆植物的根部，存在着根瘤。

They harbor millions of bacteria inside the cells of the nodules.

它们在根瘤细胞内寄居着数以百万计的细菌。

Now unfortunately, at the moment those nodules don't get infected with the nitrogen fixing bacteria.

遗憾的是，目前这些根瘤还未能被固氮细菌感染。

But even there, these apparently unique nodule structures are not that novel.

但即便如此，这些看似独特的根瘤结构也并非那么新颖。