Sentences with phrase «modified plant gene»

Two years later the same court found a patent directed at a modified plant gene was infringed by a farmer who was making the higher life forms (plants)(Monsanto Canada v Schmeiser 2004 SCC 34 at 22 - 23).

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«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.

He took the plant gene for the protein and inserted it into yeast, then fed the modified yeast sugars and nutrients to stimulate fermentation.

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.

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.

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.

They added the gene to poplar trees, and found they could extract nearly double the amount of sugar from the modified plants compared with unmodified plants, suggesting the lignin was breaking down more easily (Science, doi.org/r6s).

Synthetic incompatibility has applications in controlling or eradicating invasive species, crop pests and disease - carrying insects as well as preventing altered genes from escaping from genetically modified crops into other plant populations.

«Plants modified to express fruit fly gene used to detoxify contaminated land.»

«Not only will knowledge about this gene enable us to detect the early signs of pests evolving resistance to the current engineered plants,» co-author Fred Gould of North Carolina State University notes, «it may also allow us to modify the plants so they will be defended against the new pest strains.»

I think about that scene when I hear the way many of my environmentalist friends talk about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, an ill - fitting term that has come to stand for plants, animals and other living things whose genes have been directly manipulated in the lab using the techniques of modern biotechnology.

In news that will surely fan the flames of the heated debate over genetically modified crops, scientists have found evidence that genes from GM plants can spread far and wide to native ones.

This is done either by direct injection with micro-pipettes or by infecting the plant with a bacterium such as Agrobacterium tumefaciens carrying the modified gene.

Tomatoes are already an ideal model species for plant research, but scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) just made them even more useful by cutting the time required to modify their genes by six weeks.

The Australians have taken a chitinase gene from the tobbaco plant and have modified it with a switch called a promoter.

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.

Sure, but most genetically modified plants and animals have only one or two altered genes.

With other GMOs, the modifying entails dialing down the activity of genes that already exist in the plant, as with the just - approved Arctic apples and Innate potatoes that don't brown when cut.

On the research applications front, Dr. Chia Tet Fatt, a young scientist from the Natural Sciences Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, revealed Singapore's very first genetically modified organism (GMO)-- a transgenic resveratrol producing red lettuce for the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular diseases — which was developed by introducing the stilbene synthase gene into a red plant and diverting the precursors into resveratrol synthesis.

The modified version of the cloned gene was then introduced into the plant by Agrobacterium tumefaciens bacteria.

The pesticide Roundup kills all plants, but crop plants can be modified by adding genes that leave the plants immune to Roundup.

By increasing the expression of those genes, the scientists saw increases of 14 - 20 percent in the productivity of modified tobacco plants in field experiments.

But in the laboratory, the ability to move all sorts of genes into plants has made the microbe the standard tool for investigating plant genetics and modifying crops.

An assessment of the risks associated with the use of antibiotic resistance genes in genetically modified plants: report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Those chills were warranted: Doudna's lab and other groups successfully used this simplified CRISPR system to modify genes in bacteria, plant and animal cells.

About 95 percent of the current soybean crop is modified by inserting herbicide - resistant genes into the plants.

To be considered genetically modified, a plant such as wheat needs to have its genome altered through gene splicing in the laboratory.

Now, Monsanto, leader in the production of genetically modified seeds, maintains a $ 10m budget for investigating and prosecuting «seed savers», and has won cases against farmers whose only crime is that, due to the birds, bees and wind, some of their plants have been pollinated by plants containing patented Monsanto genes.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are created by introducing specific traits (genes), either synthetically created or from an existing organism, into a different plant or animal.

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