The world of flora has long been a source of cancer-fighting therapies.

植物直是抗癌疗法来源。

The plant world's leading biodiversity hotspots are, quite literally, dirt poor.

就是说，植物生物富饶区，其实非常贫瘠。

That's why they are the botanical equivalent of Fort Knox.

这就是为什么它们被看做是植物诺克斯堡。

As for the foregrounds passing before our eyes, they were fantastically carved rocks, forests of trees that had crossed over from the vegetable kingdom into the mineral kingdom, their motionless silhouettes sprawling beneath the waves.

在我们眼前闪过前列景象，是那离奇古怪割切成大石块，从植物到动物树林，那屹立不动形影在海水中挤眉弄眼怪子。

Today I'm going to talk about some of the most interesting diseases to ever strike the world of plants.

今天我要讲曾经袭击植物最有趣疾病。

It's artificial selection so extreme that they're known as the " dog breeds of the plant world."

这种人工选择是如此极端，以至于它们被称为“植物犬种”。

And this evolutionary change was a big deal for the plant kingdom.

这种进化变化对植物来说意义重大。

I observed that all these exhibits from the vegetable kingdom were attacthed to the seafloor by only the most makeshift methods.

我观察到，所有这里植物产品，跟土壤只是表面上连接起来。

It'll be one small step for plant, one giant leap for plantkind.

这将是植物小步，却是植物大步。

Like, there's a debate that's been simmering among plant people for decades about the philosophical significance of the cell.

比如，有场关于细胞哲学意义争论已经在植物酝酿了几十年。

We can get a feel for how these plant types came to be by referring to the plant kingdom's phylogenetic tree, a diagram that shows us how organisms evolved over time.

我们可以通过参考植物系统发育树来了解这植物类型是如何形成，这张图向我们展示了生物体是如何随着时间进化。

Pollination is the plant version of getting it on.

授粉是植物交配过程。

This is the doctrine of Malthus, applied to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms.

这就是马尔萨斯学说， 适用于整个动物和植物。

So does that mean they know that I'm like the Jeffrey Dahmer of houseplants?

所以，这是否意味着它们知道我是室内植物杰弗里·达默？

She placed seedlings of Arabidopsis saliana a member of the mustard family that serves as a guinea pig of the botanical world in Chambers containing different levels of CO2 Somewhere at 450 ppm.

她将作为植物实验对象十字花科成员——拟南芥幼苗放置在含有不同水平二氧化碳培养室中，大约为450ppm。

It was a coffee leaf rust, which a 19th century botanist once described as the vampire of the vegetable world, the way it attacks the plants.

这是种咖啡叶锈病， 19世纪位植物学家曾将其形容为植物吸血鬼，因为它对植物侵袭方式。

They gave me a Coco de Mer, which is the largest plant or the largest seed in the plant kingdom.

他们给了我颗海椰，这是植物中最大植物或最大种子。

In the plant kingdom that, you know, have been identified as playing, as having a potential benefit to human health.

在植物中，那已被认定可能对人类健康有益植物。

Their claim to fame is that they've got the longest living leaves of any in the plant kingdom.

它们之所以闻名，是因为拥有植物寿命最长叶子。

For example, the entire vegetable kingdom on our planet is a huge dissipative structure because it feeds on light, which normally would be a useless by-product of the sun's combustion.

例如， 我们星球上整个植物是个巨大耗散结构， 因为它以光为食，而光通常是太阳燃烧无用副产品。