Sentences with phrase «engineers better crops»

The scientist engineers better crops, investors and entrepreneurs refine their business models, and non-partisan experts advise governments on how best to invest in infrastructure, education, and public health.

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Well before modern genetic engineering technology was around, humans found ways to tweak the DNA of plants by zapping it with chemicals or radiation — resulting in crops that are not considered GMOs.

The technique may help researchers engineer drought - resistance crops, develop better drugs, cure genetic disorders, eradicate infectious diseases and much more.

You can imagine that such a «sensing and response» mechanism involving CRSP and EPF2 could be used to engineer crop varieties which are better able to perform in the current and future high CO2 global climate where fresh water availability for agriculture is dwindling.»

A new review sums up options for increasing global carbon sequestration by flora and speculates that genetically engineering crops and trees could enhance the process, trapping gigatons of the greenhouse gas as well as increasing bioenergy production

The researchers are collaborating with an engineering company, Intrinsyx Technologies, to show this same beneficial relationship between microbes and agricultural plants, with crops given the beneficial microbes yielding more vegetables and responding better in dry, hot weather.

The findings could pave the way to new techniques to engineer plants to produce better crops or to turn off certain genes.

In the end, three companies formed to try to exploit CRISPR to create novel medicines, while Broad and two other companies licensed the technology to partners that hoped to engineer everything from improved crops and livestock to better animal models and industrial chemicals.

Using high - performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.

Having isolated the gene, says Gilliham, they can now try putting it in other crop plants as well, using genetic engineering.

Scientifically, his research can help breeders, geneticists, agronomists and irrigation engineers develop better varieties and management strategies to increase crop yield and water - use efficiency, his nomination stated.

The toxin is heavily used on Roundup Ready crops genetically engineered to tolerate it — and on conventional crops as well.

The past few years have spoiled us with good and even great sequels to beloved hits from the late»70s / early»80s — Mad Max: Fury Road, Creed, Star Wars: The Force Awakens — but 2049 is the cream of the genetically engineered crop.

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So the question of whether or not GMOs are good or bad for the environment depends in part on which crop and what traits are being considered, not the category of «genetic engineering» as a whole.

Giving his suggestions, he stressed the need for developing varieties (idealistic plants) from climate change perspective and introduction of new crops using conventional as well as mutation breeding through biotechnology and genetic engineering.

Researchers and engineers are looking for ways to slow it as well as how to respond to the challenges that will come with it like drought, crop shortages, loss of coastline, population changes and more.