Sentences with phrase «plant genes from»

Researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered that a cellular mechanism preferentially protects plant genes from the damaging effects of mutation.

«Through our research we discovered that defense against extracellular pathogens (ETD) involves different plant genes from those involved in the defense against intracellular pathogens.

Not exact matches

Now instead they transfer genes from the soybean plant into the yeast, grow the yeast, and then isolate the heme protein from the resulting broth.

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 gene comes from the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis, a biopesticide which in organic agriculture is sprayed directly onto crops to protect the plants from insects, Saletan explains.

In genetic modification (or engineering) of food plants, scientists remove one or more genes from the DNA of another organism, such as a bacterium, virus, or other plant or animal, and «recombine» them into the DNA of the plant they want to alter.

These include genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice that could not be transferred using other breeding methods.

Before the products from these varieties can be used, they will need approval from the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, which ensures GM plants are safe for humans and the environment and from Food Standards Australia and New Zealand which regulates food safety.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

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.

When she tried counterpart genes from other plants to see if they worked better in the rice, the gene from maize came up trumps.

Without a more diverse pool of genes to pull from, your plants are much more likely to fall victim to some inherited disease.

This experimental technology merges DNA from different speciesto create new combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and viral genes that can not be formed naturally.

«Currently, we are conducting a series of joint investigations on gene family evolution and adaptation genomics in plants with colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and we foresee more significant results from this collaboration,» says Xiao - Ru Wang.

Plants are crossbred to introduce traits / genes from one variety or line into a new genetic background.

«Trees in Siberia are under different selective pressure from trees in Finland, so genes are being tweaked in different ways in these two places to allow these plants to better adjust to their environment.»

The fact that a similar gene cascade has been found in flowering plants and their gymnosperm cousins indicates that this is inherited from their common ancestor.

At the same time, I had a great opportunity to learn much about the molecular aspects of the work, from gene construction to plant transformation and screening.

Is the jump in resistance genes coming from a population explosion in the resistant enteric, or intestinal, bacteria coming into the sewage plant?

Some of the proteins in the chloroplast are made from hereditary genes in the chloroplast itself, while other proteins (such as Sco2) are made from the DNA in the nucleus of the plant cell and then imported into the chloroplast.

Such plants have two mutant copies of a gene called hothead, which differ from the normal gene by a single base pair.

However, the positive impacts of biochar were coupled with negative findings for a suite of genes that are known to determine the ability of a plant to withstand attack from pests and pathogens.

Researchers from Purdue University and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln have discovered a soybean gene whose mutation affects plant stem growth, a finding that could lead to the development of improved soybean cultivars for the northern United States.

By counting the proportions of these traits in several generations of pea plants, the inquisitive monk concluded that these features must derive from pairs of what we now call genes, which he discovered were randomly divided between offspring.

To find out if the equivalent pea sgr was Mendel's gene, they picked out the location of its sequence from pea plants that varied in their seed color.

The aim is to ensure that the benefits resulting from researching animals, plants and microorganisms, such as the invention of new medicines or enhanced genes to improve crop varieties, are «fairly and equitably shared» among the providers and users.

Engineered organisms that can not breed with wild counterparts could prevent transgenic plants from spreading genes

For example, Keasling and his team cloned genes from Clostridium stercorarium and Bacteroides ovatus — bacteria that thrive in soil and the guts of plant - eating animals, respectively — which produce enzymes that break down cellulose.

The first transgenic crop likely to be put forward for approval for open trials and commercial release is Bt cotton — which has added genes from the Bacillus thuringiensis bacterium, making the plant produce toxins that confer resistance to some insect pests.

The team spliced a nonfunctional gene for the ethylene receptor, taken from a common laboratory plant called Arabidopsis, into petunias.

Yinong Yang, a plant pathologist at Penn State University, used CRISPR / Cas9 to snip out a tiny bit of one gene from the mushroom Agaricus bisporus.

To understand the genetic shifts underlying the repeated origins of mycorrhizal lifestyles, the researchers focused on enzymes that degrade plant cell walls from 16 gene families associated with plant cell wall degradation.

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).

«Zhiyong's new work reveals a potential energy - saving strategy in plants where heat - stress response genes are prevented from being turned on at night when there is less chance of heat stress.

Moving from biochemistry to molecular biology, Palatnik started investigating the role of microRNAs — tiny RNA molecules that are important in gene regulation in most life forms — in the development of the plant Arabidopsis.

No one knows where or when this happened, but plant pathologists discovered last year that yellow rust can reproduce sexually, suggesting the new strain may have picked up genes from local strains by mating with them.

When she tried counterpart genes from other plants to see if they worked better in the rice, the gene from maize came up trumps.

In 1992 countries were mostly focused on controlling the genes from indigenous plants.

Xi's work also shows that even the genes that Rafflesia plants inherited from their own ancestors have appropriated the characteristics of the vines» genes; up to 30 percent of the corpse flowers» native genes code for proteins (the process that helps to determine physical traits) in a way that's more like the vines» than like its fellow Malpighiales».

At the meeting, team member Koffi Konan, a plant molecular biologist, showed how the plants were made by inserting shortened or backward versions of each of the genes — Ara h1, Ara h2, and Ara h3 — into cultured cells from peanut plants.

In previous studies, Chen - Yu Zhang's group has reported a striking finding that plant miRNAs are ingested from plant diets and pass through the gastrointestinal tract, enter into the blood, accumulate in tissues and regulate endogenous gene expression in animals.

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.

As a possible step toward the goal of doubling food production by 2050 to feed our expanding human population, researchers have transferred a key photosynthesis gene from a blue - green algae into a tobacco plant, according to a Nature news story.

The gene works by making the plant mature more rapidly, thus speeding up the transfer of these nutrients from the leaves to the grain.

When scientists engineered the plants to express the glutathione transferase (DmGSTE6) gene found in fruit flies, they found that plants expressing the gene were more resistant to TNT and were better able to remove it from contaminated soil than wild - type plants without the gene.

A team of researchers at the University of Bonn, in cooperation with scientists from the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, has now identified a gene in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), called NILR1, that helps plants sense nematodes.

ScienceInsider will have coverage Wednesday from Moscow on a crucial case on Russia's plant gene bank near St. Petersburg.

With funding from Wine Australia, a team of scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Adelaide and CSIRO Agriculture and Food identified genes expressed in grapevine roots that limit the amount of sodium — a key component of salt — that reaches berries and leaves.

Plants in the genus open little five - petaled flowers and readily form classic seeds that mix genes from pollen and ovule.

After looking at all the kinds of evidence she might muster for a plant, from its genes and distribution to the details of petals, leaf hairs and other parts, she sides with the preponderance of data to designate a species.