Every single plant in the rainforest has taken arms.

雨林中的每一株植物都拿起了武器。

Today, every single plant has cells like this, full of chloroplasts and mitochondria.

今天，每一株植物都有这样的细胞，充满叶绿体和线粒体。

You do not want your single plants to get lost in the dark.

你不希望单株植物在黑夜里让人看不到吧。

So how did this single variety of this single plant become the biggest success story in agricultural history?

所以，为什麽这单一种 植物的单一种类别会成为农业史上最成功的故事？

Because alone as single plants, they cannot survive.

因为单独作为单一植物， 它们无法生存。

You need many more wind turbines and solar panels to replace a single natural gas plant.

您需要更多的风力涡轮机和太阳能电池板来取代单个天然气发电厂。

I have counted upward of 3000 flowers, five eighths of an inch in diameter, on a single plant.

我在一株植物上数过 3000 多朵花， 直径为八分之五英寸。

One study estimated that if you strung the root hairs of a single rye plant end-to-end, it'd be eleven thousand kilometers long.

一项研究估计，如果你把一株黑麦植物的根毛端对端串起来，它将有 11000 公里长。

But every time a single plant with a mutation is taken from a larger population for breeding, much genetic diversity is lost.

但是， 每次从更大的种群中取出一株发生突变的植物进行育种时，都会丢失大量的遗传多样性。

So we went back to somewhere where we knew it had been collected in 1954 and we found a single plant, which was exciting, but not the resources you need to reinvigorate a species back into cultivation.

所以我们回到我们知道它于 1954 年被收集的地方，我们发现了一株植物，这很令人兴奋，但不是让一个物种重新恢复耕种所需的资源。

" Since 2004, I have gone to the Gaoligong Mountains for some 100 field investigations and found more than 30 new species of Orchidaceae, but not a single wild plant of Paphiopedilum wardii Summerhayes, " said Jin Xiaohua, a researcher from the institute.

“我从 2004 年起前往高黎贡山进行了上百次野外调查，在当地发现兰科植物新种三十多种，但一直没有发现野生的彩云兜兰。”