Sentences with phrase «plant disease organism»

The laboratories best accomplish soil testing, microscopic tissue examininations, and plant disease organism culturing.

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It is usually too dense for the tender plants and may contain disease - bearing organisms.
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.
It allows plant breeders to take a desirable trait (like resistance to drought, insects, weeds, and disease) from one plant or organism and transfer it to the plant they want to improve, as well as make a change to an existing trait in a plant they are developing.
Or CRISPR could be employed to reduce or extirpate a population of rapidly reproducing disease vectors or non-native organisms or aggressively invasive plants and animals.
Although prions are infamous for causing Creutzfeld - Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow's disease, the present study indicates that prions identified in yeast, and possibly in plants, and other organisms may be beneficial.
It eliminates the ability of the plant to defend against disease then it kills the beneficial organisms in the soil whose job it is to do two things.
Some invasive species also carry diseases that kill native organisms, and many will consume native plants and animals.
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