Farrant is trying to isolate genes in resurrection plants and reproduce them in crops.

2. Farrant 正试图在复活植物中分离基因并在作物中繁殖它们。

By adjusting their metabolism, resurrection plants can recover from an extended period of drought.

9. 通过调整新陈代谢，复活植物可以从长时间的干旱中恢复过来。

D) Farrant calls them resurrection plants.

D) Farrant 称它们为复活植物。

10. Resurrection plants can come back to life in a short time after a rainfall.

10. 复活植物可以在雨后短时间内恢复生机。

What Farrant and others have found over the past two decades is that there are many genes involved in resurrection plants' response to dryness.

Farrant 和其他人在过去二十年中发现的是， 复活植物对干燥的反应涉及许多基因。

And while there are plants today  that use this second option, sometimes called " resurrection plants, " it's  really hard on a plant's metabolism.

虽然今天有些植物使用第二种选择，有时也称为“复活植物” ，但它对植物的新陈代谢来说确实很困难。

Now they are trying to figure out what molecular signaling processes activate those seed-building genes in resurrection plants — and how to reproduce them in crops.

现在他们正试图弄清楚是什么分子信号过程激活了复活植物中的这些种子构建基因——以及如何在作物中繁殖它们。

The Queensland rock violet is one of the best studied resurrection plants so far, with a draft genome published last year by a Chinese team.

昆士兰岩紫罗兰是迄今为止研究最深入的复活植物之一，中国团队去年发表了一份基因组草图。

J) Farrant and others in the resurrection business got together last year to discuss the best species of resurrection plant to use as a lab model.

J) Farrant 和复活行业的其他人去年聚在一起讨论了用作实验室模型的最佳复活植物种类。

F) Resurrection plants, defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of water per gram of dry mass, are different.

F) 复活植物， 定义为那些能够从每克干物质中保持少于 0. 1 克水的状态中恢复过来的植物， 这是不同的。