Ten to fifteen years is the average time between finding the plant, [identifying its exact use] and patenting it into a drug [so] it is a long-term investment.

找到一种植物，[辨别它的确切用途]然后申请专利并制成药物所需要的平均时间是十到十五年，[所以]这是一项长期投资。

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A known gene with a desirable quality can be inserted into a rice plant and the time, tedium and errors of the old breeding techniques avoided.

一个已知的质量优良的基因可以运用到水稻种植中去，并且可以节约旧饲养技术的时间，使得饲养变得不那么沉闷，避免饲养错误。

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Many famous poems are about them, such as one plant alone leads the world into spring time for plum.

有好多著名的诗句都是些植物的，例如说梅花是三千阳春始一花。

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"We've been looking into diversifying for quite a while now so it's an exciting time for us to see the plant taking shape, " he said.

BBC: The Jones family from Talgarth, near Brecon