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.
Not exact matches
As they report in two
new studies, the pair and their colleagues
constructed viral vectors, each one containing an RNA molecule designed to shut down a
gene with a complementary sequence.
But while a child uses plastic blocks to
construct elaborate creations, synthetic biologists use
genes and DNA to build
new organisms and bacteria that create vaccines and biofuels and cure diseases...
«Previously, phylogenetic trees were
constructed from standard sets of
genes and were used to identify the relationships of species,» said Gloria Coruzzi, a professor in
New York University's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and the principal investigator of the NSF grant.