Sentences with phrase «planted genes for enzyme»

For this purpose, they planted genes for enzyme synthesis into the microorganisms.

Not exact matches

The researchers succeeded in identifying the enzyme and gene responsible for the formation of a precursor of TA - G biosynthesis, and so were able to engineer plants with lower TA - G.

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.

James Reid and his colleagues at the University of Tasmania in Hobart will report in the August issue of The Plant Cell that the tallness gene codes for an enzyme involved in the manufacture of the growth hormone gibberellin.

«The animals also do not have the genes for plant - digesting enzymes in their own genome.

In addition to looking at transcription factors, researchers have studied the genes that code for the enzymes responsible for building up the plant's biomass.

Borrowed genes raise hopes for fixing «slow and confused» plant enzyme.

Lippman and Cora MacAlister, Ph.D., lead author on the new paper, found that deleting the genes for these enzymes from the flowering mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the moss Physcomitrella patens resulted in similar defects in both species, which are widely separated in evolutionary time.

This stand - alone molecular assembly line consists of 10 genes — from a plant, yeast, and another bacterium — coding for the enzymes that allow the bacteria to assemble a complex molecule from its building blocks.