Sentences with phrase «in plant gene»

rich, full - colour illustrations and diagrams clearly showing important processes in plant gene expression;

While previous research had identified the presence of feed forward loops in plant gene regulation, «this study increases the scale enormously,» said Bartley.

Not exact matches

The team was never able to get all the necessary genes in at the same time, and they only got the plant to glow dimly.

Here's how it works: Scientists identify the desired genes in a plant or animal and insert them into a host such as yeast.

Researchers now have the tools to identify resistance genes in wild bananas or other plant species.

«To make a corn plant more drought tolerant, you can modify genes in the plant without having to put a different gene in,» Fyrwald explains.

It's also working in Beijing on new technology in genome editing; unlike GMO technology, it doesn't involve inserting a gene from another species, such as a bacterium, into a plant.

The gene comes from the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis, a biopesticide which in organic agriculture is sprayed directly onto crops to protect the plants from insects, Saletan explains.

«So in many cases,» says Doug Gurian - Sherman, a plant pathologist and director of sustainable agriculture at the Center for Food Safety, «the particular genes used will only work well in certain genetic backgrounds and environments.»

Therefore, the plants with genes for superhot chiles had more offspring than the chiles with other parents.The mutation was discovered in 2016 by Dr. Peter Cooke of the New Mexico State University Core University Research Resources Laboratory.

I'm sure genes play a roll in her remarkable health, but eating well (she's big on plant based diet), getting some exercise, and then of course drinking this ginger tea as a morning ritual contribute to her impressive status!!

In genetic modification (or engineering) of food plants, scientists remove one or more genes from the DNA of another organism, such as a bacterium, virus, or other plant or animal, and «recombine» them into the DNA of the plant they want to alter.

GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are plants or animals created through the gene splicing techniques of biotechnology, and they're present in more than 80 percent of packaged products in the average U.S. or Canadian grocery store.

The advent of rice varieties bearing genes with resistance to the disease has changed the perception about the disease: the incorporation of host - plant resistance genes in rice varieties, their adoption and deployment in the world's main rice - producing environments is probably one of the most significant evidences of the role of plant pathology in agricultural development.

As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

The PSTOL1 gene is also being tested in rice varieties for the more productive irrigated rice - growing areas and initial results show that the plants grow a better root system and have higher production too.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

The newer process of genetic engineering, which involves inserting genes from unrelated species into a plant's genome to add desirable traits, has been used in crops such as corn, soy, and potatoes.

The researchers identified several reasons for this: The new gene constructs interfere with the plant's own gene for producing growth hormones, and the additional gene constructs were not, as intended, active solely in the kernels, but also in the leaves.

The OsAux1 gene is involved in the transport of the hormon auxin, which is important for virtually every aspect of plant growth and development.

When she tried counterpart genes from other plants to see if they worked better in the rice, the gene from maize came up trumps.

Years ago when we lived in Minnesota, our next door neighbor Gene had several rhubarb plants.

This creates combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and virus genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods.

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.

Genetically modified crops are plants in which genes are altered in the laboratory to make them perform in a very specific way, such as not being harmed by certain herbicides.

The researchers also modified some of the plant, rat and yeast genes, as well as the medium in which the yeast proliferates, to help everything work better together.

She is identifying the enzymes in these natural products to find the genes responsible so that they can be introduced into other plants.

The result was an 18,000-fold improvement in noscapine output, compared with what could be obtained by just inserting the plant and rat genes into yeast.

«Currently, we are conducting a series of joint investigations on gene family evolution and adaptation genomics in plants with colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and we foresee more significant results from this collaboration,» says Xiao - Ru Wang.

For my dissertation, I studied the fundamental mechanisms that control gene activity in plants.

Comparing crop pathogens, which can vary widely in virulence and impact, turns out to be remarkably international, and examining different plant strains at gene banks around the world sometimes needs to be done in person.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire, added: «This new understanding of plant defense through ETD suggests different operations of specific resistance genes which will help us to be more successful in breeding new strains of crops for resistance.

«Through our research we discovered that defense against extracellular pathogens (ETD) involves different plant genes from those involved in the defense against intracellular pathogens.

Thinking that more hemoglobin might help plants better survive a low - oxygen environment, Leif Bülow and colleagues at the Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Lund, Sweden, inserted the Vitreoscilla bacterium's hemoglobin gene into the tobacco genome.

«Trees in Siberia are under different selective pressure from trees in Finland, so genes are being tweaked in different ways in these two places to allow these plants to better adjust to their environment.»

And it will destroy the genes in the fungus, effectively immunizing the plant against aflatoxin.

In fact, sewage treatment methods used at the country's 18,000 - odd wastewater plants could actually affect the resistance genes that enter their systems.

Biologists are studying whether genes could be switched on and off in plants depending on climatic conditions

The fact that a similar gene cascade has been found in flowering plants and their gymnosperm cousins indicates that this is inherited from their common ancestor.

Yet, in this plant (as well as in certain conifers), the researchers found genes similar to those responsible for the formation of flowers, and which are organized according to the same hierarchy (with the activation of one gene activating the next gene, and so on)!

Ian Baldwin of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and colleagues genetically modified petunia plants to silence genes responsible for producing specific scent molecules.

When the team induced expression of the corresponding gene in the leaves of two other plant species (one closely related to S. lycopersicum and the other more distantly related), both plants reacted to presence of the C. reflexa peptide with increased production of ethylene, and exhibited increased resistance to C. reflexa infestation.

She has been tinkering with genes since childhood, when, like an elfin Mendel, she spent long hours crossbreeding plants in her parents» garden.

Trickery is rife in the living world but in plants and most animals such trickery is instinctive - controlled largely by genes with little or no intellectual input.

Genes for a receptor that helps transmit nerve signals in animals have been found in, of all things, plants.

Is the jump in resistance genes coming from a population explosion in the resistant enteric, or intestinal, bacteria coming into the sewage plant?

Other recent changes in agriculture include hydroponics, plant breeding, hybridization, gene manipulation, better management of soil nutrients, and improved weed control.

However, the finding for plant defence genes was entirely unpredicted and could have serious consequences for the commercial development and deployment of biochar in future.

Pioneer Hi - Bred International of Des Moines, Iowa, and Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, for example, had invested heavily in developing a sunflower seed with a Bt gene that helps plants fight off insects.

Some of the proteins in the chloroplast are made from hereditary genes in the chloroplast itself, while other proteins (such as Sco2) are made from the DNA in the nucleus of the plant cell and then imported into the chloroplast.