Sentences with phrase «plant genomes using»

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The platform is used for everything from analyzing seismic data to find promising places to drill for oil to looking at plant genomes in search of new hybrids.

Since its 2013 demonstration as a genome editing tool in Arabidopsis and tobacco — two widely used laboratory plants — CRISPR has been road - tested in crops, including wheat, rice, soybeans, potatoes, sorghum, oranges and tomatoes.

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.

This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate - change scientists, biologists, geneticists, modellers and engineers who are using and developing new technologies and research platforms to unlock the vast stores of information within plant genomes.

The team of European researchers used so - called DNA fingerprinting — examining genetic differences in a specific fragment of the plant's genome — to trace these plants back to their roots.

Fortunately, plant genomes — all of an organism's genetic information — are a vast storehouse of genetic variability that can be used to help prevent the loss of species suffering from climate change.

«Studying the genome of water - efficient plants may also provide insights into a plant's ability to use slightly saline water and maintain growth under higher temperature and lower clean water availability,» said Jerry Tuskan, coauthor and chief executive officer of the Center for Bioenergy Innovation led by ORNL.

The technologies used by the researchers can be applied to any plant genome, so the implications extend beyond wheat.

Chloroplasts evolve slowly, so researchers use next - generation sequencing to look for subtle differences in their genomes to determine how two plants from different populations might be related.

To use CallHap, researchers must first obtain a reference genome sequence for their target species, either from previously published work or by sequencing the DNA of a single plant.

Next, they should sequence the chloroplasts of a few plants individually and align them to the reference genome to create the basic database used by the program.

Dr Chatterjee's research uses an approach called TILLING (Targeting Induced Lesions In The Genome), an established non-GM method for creating and discovering new traits in plants.

The research team conducted experiments on the roots of Arabidopsis, a plant often used as a «model organism» in plant biology and had its genome fully sequenced in 2000.

Focusing on this small portion of each plant's genome, the team sequenced 400 billion bases of DNA using sophisticated sequencing technology to analyze the plants that grew from the mutated seeds — a total of 2,735 mutant lines.

The team then used their best transplastomic tobacco plant line to introduce an additional set of genes into its nuclear genome, generating the COSTREL lines.

As more such species are sequenced, he says, «everyone will be using these» genomes to find out which genes are responsible for particular functions, especially for plant pathogens such as Fusarium, which causes ear rot in corn and puts out mycotoxins in animal feed.

the new information enabled the researchers to clarify aspects of the barley genome that are important in the context of genome evolution and for practical use of genome knowledge by plant breeders and basic researchers — namely, the locations of gene - rich regions including some that have low recombination

In a world - first, Japanese scientists have used the revolutionary CRISPR, or CRISPR / Cas9, genome - editing tool to change flower colour in an ornamental plant.

Using techniques collectively known as molecular breeding, geneticists have started to return results in a variety of plants, said Ed Buckler, a plant geneticist at Cornell University who recently helped sequence the corn genome.

Like an earlier generation of gene - edited crops already in commercial use, those two products don't fall in USDA's purview because their genomes contain no foreign DNA from species considered to be plant pests.

According to Bailey, this approach can also be used to target genomes of endophytes (i.e., fungi that live in plants) and prokaryotic parasites in plant DNA samples.

Such plants can be isolated using genome - wide association mapping of diverse populations or can be isolated from forward genetic screens, where a subset sample population with the desired traits is selected from a large pool of mutagenized individuals.

We have used three variations of a strategy known as pathogen - derived resistance (PDR), whereby fragments of DNA from the pathogen are inserted into the plant genome providing it with resistance against the pathogen.

CRISPR / Cas systems are known as promising «gene scissors» in the genome editing of plants, animals, and microorganisms by targeting specific regions in their DNA - and perhaps they can even be used to correct genetic defects.

Jeremy B. Yoder, Ph.D., Contributing Writer Dr. Yoder is a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Minnesota using genome - scale genetic data to examine the interaction between plants and rhizobial bacteria, as part of the Medicago Hapmap Project.

His research interest focuses on 1) development and application of TALEN and CRISPR technologies for targeted genome editing in plant species, and 2) molecular mechanism of plant / microbe interactions and crop disease resistance engineering by using the bacterial blight of rice as a model.

The government of Alberta and private funders have given C$ 25.2 million ($ 22.1 million) to two new research programs that will study genomics to discover new ways to use microbes in energy production and new uses for plants in medicine and in industry, Genome Alberta said today...

Focusing initially on five staple crops — wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea — the project seeks to empower public plant breeders to use genome - wide approaches to model plant performance in real time using tools that can be shared across diverse species and regions of the world.

We are investigating these and other allied questions using evolutionary genomic approaches, by performing comparative analyses of plant genomes, transcriptomes and proteomes.

Using viral genome data, they reconstructed the evolutionary history of 19 major virus families, each of which contained between 23 and 142 viruses found in diverse hosts ranging from mammals to fish to plants.

Sequencing the gigabase plant genome of the wild tomato species Solanum pennellii using Oxford Nanopore single molecule sequencing

Joe Parker from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew gives a talk at London Calling 2016 on how he used the MinION to analyse plant genomes in a tent in the middle of Snowdonia National Park.

I am using computational analysis and modeling to visualize how plant genomes have evolved over time, particularly those of staple crops.

Using the well - characterized signaling pathway of the phytohormone ethylene and plant - optimized genome - wide ribosome footprinting, we have uncovered a molecular mechanism linking this hormone's perception to the activation of a gene - specific translational control mechanism.

Oryza coarctata plants, collected from Sundarban delta of West Bengal, India, have been used in the present study to generate draft genome sequences, employing the hybrid genome assembly with Illumina reads and third generation Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology.

How broadly this mode of evolutionary change is exploited in nature remains to be seen, but if the prevalence of repetitive elements within genes is any indicator, then mammals, insects, plants, and other genomes throughout the natural world may use this mechanism to achieve evolutionary agility.

Genome Alberta announced C$ 25.2 million (US$ 22.2 million) in public / private funding over four years for two new genomic research projects, one targeted at enhanced recovery of fossil hydrocarbon resources from oil sands and coal beds through biological processes, the other focused on discovering plant genes that can be sequenced and used... Read more →

This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate - change scientists, biologists, geneticists, modelers and engineers who are using and developing new technologies and research platforms to unlock the vast stores of information within plant genomes.

While many different animal and plant species can be said to shape their various ecosystems by activity «pre-programmed» by their genomes, no single species until human beings has had its own future within its voluntary control via the outsized impacts it has had through its tool creation and use and through the ability to coordinate social activity, think alone and deliberate together via the use of language.