Sentences with phrase «into plant genomes»

The microbe Agrobacterium tumefaciens is harmful to plants and useful to scientists for the same reason: It transfers DNA into plant genomes.

Viral sequences integrated into plant genomes.

Genetically engineered maize is created by introducing a gene into the plant genome that expresses a toxic protein from a bacterium, i.e. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

We have used three variations of a strategy known as pathogen - derived resistance (PDR), whereby fragments of DNA from the pathogen are inserted into the plant genome providing it with resistance against the pathogen.

Not exact matches

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 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 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.

In a companion paper in Analytical Biochemistry, the Singh laboratory and the Bernd Friebe laboratory at the Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, describe a molecular tool to rapidly detect and analyze insertion of mitochondrial DNA into the genomes of cells.

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.

«Studying the genome of water - efficient plants may also provide insights into a plant's ability to use slightly saline water and maintain growth under higher temperature and lower clean water availability,» said Jerry Tuskan, coauthor and chief executive officer of the Center for Bioenergy Innovation led by ORNL.

Prof Inzé (VIB - Ghent University): «This study provided major insights into how plants cope with water - limiting conditions, which can direct advanced breeding and genome engineering efforts to create high - performing, drought - tolerant crop plants.

The study provided major insights into how plants cope with water - limiting conditions, which can direct advanced breeding and genome engineering efforts to create high - performing, drought - tolerant crop plants.

When they inserted those genes into crop genomes, through a technique called recombinant DNA, the plants were able to produce the protein for bug resistance on their own, eliminating the need to spray insecticide.

As scientists race to decode genomes — not just of humans but of bacteria, yeast, chimps, dogs, whales and plants — the number of DNA sequences available for analysis has grown 40,000-fold in the past 20 years, providing unprecedented insight into billions of years of species evolution.

«The data will provide our first detailed look into the Joshua tree genome,» said Michael McKain, an evolutionary biologist working on the project and a post-doctoral associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

«Each of these 10 genomes encodes for a unique composition of CAZymes — and the wider assortment helps formulate enzyme cocktails better suited for different types of plant biomass to efficiently convert them into biofuels,» Grigoriev said.

They also performed comparative and genome - wide analyses, which provide insights into the evolutionary history of Asterids, a subgroup of flowering plants that includes potatoes, tomatoes and coffee.

In addition to its utility in retrospective studies of the evolution of flowering plants, the Amborella genome sequence offers insights into the history and conservation of Amborella populations.

The genome may give researchers new insight into what makes the pot plant so, ahem, popular at folk festivals.

A genetic analysis, which included sequencing the entire genome of Cephalotus, found strong evidence that during their evolution into carnivores, each of these plants co-opted many of the same ancient proteins to create enzymes for digesting prey.

Upland cotton came into existence more than a million years ago when two separate species hybridized, creating a plant that has multiple genomes.

The first step in their process was to transfer the genes of the artemisinic acid pathway's core set of enzymes into the chloroplast genome of tobacco plants, generating what are known as transplastomic plants.

The team then used their best transplastomic tobacco plant line to introduce an additional set of genes into its nuclear genome, generating the COSTREL lines.

While looking for ways to make tomatoes and other crop plants more productive, BTI Assistant Professor Joyce Van Eck and former postdoctoral scientist Sarika Gupta developed a better method for «transforming» a tomato — a process that involves inserting DNA into the tomato genome and growing a new plant.

At just under 600,000 bases, M. genitalium sports the smallest known genome for a free - living organism, and Venter hoped that an artificial genome could be modified to turn the bacterium into a living chemical - manufacturing plant.

Many companies are developing «mini-chromosomes» that can function in a plant cell without needing to be integrated into the plant's genome.

The problem is assembling that sequence into order,» said David Neale, a professor of plant sciences at the University of California, Davis, who led the loblolly pine genome project and is an author on the GENETICS and Genome Biology artgenome project and is an author on the GENETICS and Genome Biology artGenome Biology articles.

Amborella trichopoda is understood to be the most basal extant flowering plant and its genome is anticipated to provide insights into the evolution of plant life on Earth (see the Perspective by Adams).

Comparing these nine new rice genome sequences to four previously available wild rice genomes, the team has generated a telling new view into the plant's 15 - million - year evolutionary history.

During their coexistence, the bacterium was further and further integrated as a power plant into the cell, which was evident in the fact that the construction plans of the power plant were increasingly transferred into the host cell from the bacterial genome.

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A comprehensive draft genome sequence for lupin (Lupinus angustifolius), an emerging health food: insights into plant - microbe interactions and legume evolution

Anicka Yi goes deep into the body's biochemistry in her hypnotic 3D travelogue video The Flavour Genome, following a «bioprospecting» trip through the Amazon jungle in search of «designed chemical personas» that can be extracted from plant and animal life.

Galindo's recent solo exhibit Sonic Botany, created on the occasion of Pacific Standard Time and shown at the Huntington Library, comments on European colonial codexes, integrating genomes of plants and insects into a sight and sound environment.