Sentences with phrase «functioning plant gene»

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The researches found that the transgene was inserted into an active region of the genome, thereby disrupting the coding sequence and ultimately the function of the plants own OsAux1 gene.

Blasting GM DNA into a plant arbitrarily and out of a sequence of genes that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, in a manner aimed to optimise the functioning of an organism, is risky and unpredictable, and bound to destabilise the biochemistry of the plant.

This research tool can be used to better understand the function of histone proteins, which play critical roles in the regulation of gene expression in animals and plants.

Monsanto's newest drought - tolerant product, Drought Guard, relies on a gene that creates a chaperone protein to coat a plant's RNA during stressful conditions and maintain the plant's normal cell functions, while Syngenta's hybrid contains novel drought - tolerant gene combinations.

Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Adelaide's Waite campus then investigated the function of this gene.

Over the longer term, the identification of the coffee tree genome sequence opens up new possibilities for varietal improvement, knowledge of the specific functions of the genes (in particular those specific to coffee trees), the possibility of transferring results to other species, and refining diagnostic tools for the function of the plant.

We are currently experimentally studying the function of many of these genes to gain a better functional understanding of the plant microbiome.»

«If we want to engineer the right microbiome to support plant growth, we need to understand the real function of the microbiome and not just sequence marker genes,» said study co-first author Asaf Levy, a research scientist at the JGI.

Numerous genes that seem to mimic plant functions — by encoding «Plant - Resembling PA and RA Domains» or PREPARADOs — were also identiplant functions — by encoding «Plant - Resembling PA and RA Domains» or PREPARADOs — were also identiPlant - Resembling PA and RA Domains» or PREPARADOs — were also identified.

This behavior was associated with one specific plant gene, coding for a protein with unknown function.

«Gaining a better understanding of the functions genes perform in cells, whether plant or animal, is going to help us understand how to diagnose and treat diseases in humans,» says Richard K. Wilson of Washington University.

«This gene, Sr35, functions as a key component of plants» immune system,» Akhunov said.

Also, while many of the genes involved in basic cell functions are the same in this plant and animals, the set of genes for cell - to - cell communication vary dramatically between the two kingdoms.»

More than 90 percent of the plants» genes are disrupted by the ten million mutations catalogued in the collection, making it a powerful resource for studying the function of nearly any wheat gene.

Researchers must cross plants with mutations in different copies of the gene several times to obtain a generation of plants in which the gene's function is lost.

As more such species are sequenced, he says, «everyone will be using these» genomes to find out which genes are responsible for particular functions, especially for plant pathogens such as Fusarium, which causes ear rot in corn and puts out mycotoxins in animal feed.

MicroRNAs are short molecules that work within all animal and plant cells, typically functioning as a «dimmer switch» for one or more genes, binding to the transcripts of those genes and preventing protein production.

Solving a puzzle of plant manipulation Rather than try to isolate single genes related to secondary cell wall production, the researchers looked at the function of hundreds of transcription factors working within the root xylem's regulatory network.

The agency decided the mushroom was not subject to regulations on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) because, unlike previous genetic engineering techniques, gene editing does not insert foreign DNA from viruses or bacteria to alter a plant's function.

What is exciting about these findings is that «now we have a handle on the genes that comprise a universal toolkit for building stomata,» Bergmann explained, «plants apparently use the same common parts, but the ways these parts function and interact with each other are different, which is both interesting from a discovery science perspective and could be harnessed to improve growth performance in grasses that humans use for food or fuel.»

After decades of extrapolating about gene function in trees based on gene function in a tiny, less complex plant, a team of scientists has sequenced whole genomes — determined the DNA sequence of all the genes — from 544 unrelated trees of the same species.

Scientists believe that «conserved» genes — those found in life forms that range from bacteria to plants, insects and humans — perform vital biological functions across species.

A genomic comparison of fluorescent genomes (strains SBW25, Pf0 - 1, Pf - 5)(9) revealed a huge genomic heterogeneity among the three strains analyzed, and that the 42 % of plant - inducible genes were not shared by all fluorescent strains, suggesting that ecological success requires specialized and core functions.

This work presents a genomic analysis of the UM270 gene functions as compared to other available pseudomonad genomes, highlighting the genetic and functional differences between each strain of this group of fluorescent and plant growth - promoting bacteria.

The microbe is particularly well suited for testing the functions of individual plant genes because bacterial DNA disrupts the genome at the point of insertion.

Members of our lab study gene expression and organelle function in plants and humans.

Annotation of genomes — determining the genetic sequence and gene functions — of plants that are important to farmers in these regions would help speed crop improvement.