The laboratories best accomplish soil testing, microscopic tissue examininations, and
plant disease organism culturing.
Not exact matches
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.