广播电视英语短句 第 344 课：高梁种子-4

The plant attacks sorghum and other crops and steals water and nutrients from the roots. 这种植物侵害高梁及其它农作物，并从其根部截取水份及营养。

In the nineteen nineties, Gebisa Ejeta and another Purdue researcher, Larry Butler, identified the complex relationships between Striga and sorghum plants. 在九十年代，哥比萨 · 益节塔及另一位普渡的研究者赖瑞 · 巴特勒，验明了独脚金与高梁之间的复杂关系。

That finding led to the development of seeds resistant to both Striga and drought. 这项发现促成了抗独脚金且耐旱的种子的发明。

Gebisa Ejeta was raised in a one-room hut in a rural village in west-central Ethiopia. 哥比萨 · 益节塔在埃塞俄比亚中西部乡下的一间小棚子里长大。