Sentences with phrase «resistance gene for»

Now Yi - Yun Liu at the South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou and colleagues have discovered the first known resistance gene for colistin that is able to move freely from one bacterium to another.

«This knowledge will facilitate identification and isolation of additional resistance genes for improved control of Septoria,» adds Kanyuka.

The scientists have also detected resistance genes for sulphonamides and another antibiotic in the treated wastewater — which will be turned into snow at a nearby ski resort, in a relatively pristine part of a river basin, later this year.

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Scientists could search within them for resistance genes and other desirable traits to use in engineering and breeding programs.

At the gene level, traditional and adapted seeds and breeds are preferred for their greater resistance to diseases and their resilience to climatic stress.

«We think that the garter snake's evolved resistance to the newt's toxin can be used as a model for understanding complex adaptations that involve more than one gene,» McGlothlin said.

We identified some specific resistance genes that code for receptor - like proteis (RLPs) and described how they operated against the pathogens.

The bacteria behind gonorrhoea readily acquire genes for resisting drugs and so from 2012, UK patients were given two antibiotics at once — azithromycin pills plus a ceftriaxone injection — so if bacteria acquired resistance to one, they would be killed by the other.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire, added: «This new understanding of plant defense through ETD suggests different operations of specific resistance genes which will help us to be more successful in breeding new strains of crops for resistance.

But they lost some things in the process, like genes for disease resistance that still occur in wild peanut ancestors.

They hope to identify the genes and mechanisms responsible for aflatoxin resistance.

«We're also looking at as many genes as possible in the wild banana and screening them to identify other resistance genes, not only for resistance to TR4 but to other diseases.»

A 2003 study of the mouths of healthy kindergartners found that 97 percent harbored bacteria with genes for resistance to four out of six tested antibiotics.

Bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacterial pathogens, may also act as vectors of virulence or of antibiotic resistance genes, ultimately making bacterial disease worse for the host.

Over the past 60 years, genes for antibiotic resistance have gone from rare to commonplace in the microbes that routinely infect our bodies.

But the rapid rise of bacterial genes for drug resistance stems from more than lucky mutation, Levy adds.

The Sainsbury Laboratory is continuing to identify multiple blight resistance genes that will difficult for blight to simultaneously overcome.

«You've got the genes encoding for resistance in the soil beneath these operations,» he says, «and we know that the majority of the antibiotics animals consume get excreted intact.»

As a marker for successful insertion, the researchers also put a gene encoding antibiotic resistance into the plasmid.

The researchers — James Robl, a developmental biologist and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Steve Stice at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts — inserted a marker gene fused with a gene for resistance to the chemical neomycin into a culture of connective tissue cells called fibroblasts.

But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.

Genes that code for resistance to antibiotics existed even before we discovered and started using antibiotics.

The activity of four transcription factors — proteins that regulate the expression of other genes — appears to distinguish the small proportion of glioblastoma cells responsible for the aggressiveness and treatment resistance of the deadly brain tumor.

The answer is that it forms the platform for illuminating the interaction between the use of animal manure and the appearance of genes for antibiotic resistance in soil.

And the genes needed for resistance may take their own toll, perhaps by shortening a mosquito's life span.

So even if you start off [with] say, a resistant type of staph infection, that line of staph organisms not only, will they be more resistant, but they may pass some of the genes for that resistance off to completely other unrelated types of bacteria.

New research presented here yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW) finds that a gene associated with increased risk of asthma is also linked to resistance against a parasitic worm.

She doubts, for instance, the suggestion that weeds could be gene - drive engineered to eliminate herbicide resistance.

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 number of copies of the resistance gene varies among cultivars; a new method, developed by University of Illinois researchers, is able to efficiently quantify this variation for the first time.

«Genes may cause tumor aggressiveness, drug resistance in African - American prostate cancer: Research found many targeted therapies for prostate cancer may not be effective against tumors in African - American men.»

A plasmid, a simple kind of DNA - delivery vehicle, will move a gene for antibiotic resistance into the bacterial cells, jump - starting the Crispr - Cas9 system.

So, it's not an issue of her possibly becoming infected by these parasites, but because there is usually a genetic basis [for] parasite resistance, she may be looking for good genes for her offspring to survive better.

For more than 30 years, scientists have proposed that resistance genes actually originate from the microorganisms producing the antibiotic.

We could get radiation - resistance genes, for example, from the Bdelloid rotifer, a class of small invertebrates that live in freshwater pools and survive megadoses of ionizing radiation.

And the race is on to find a molecular marker for PPQ resistance, the equivalent of the K13 gene.

One reservoir for resistance genes where they can be exchanged among bacteria — and possibly end up in the food chain — is the sediment in marine fish farms even when no antibiotics have been applied.

The effort has already had one practical result: the discovery of two new genes for resistance to a race of wheat stem rust to which there is virtually no resistance in wheat.

From isolated caves to ancient permafrost, antibiotic - resistant bacteria and genes for resistance have been showing up in unexpected places.

The gene for colistin resistance can be easily spread to other bacteria, making it likely that colistin resistance will become widespread in the future.»

And determining treatment strategies will be no less complex: Last summer, for example, a team of scientists linked 124 different genes to resistance to four leukemia drugs.

How many different genes for antibiotic resistance come to Israel from the various dust storms, and how prevalent are these genes?

Although many different malaria resistance loci have been postulated over the years, this is one of very few that have stood up to stringent testing in a large multi-centre study; the others include the genes for sickle cell and the O blood group.

«This new resistance locus is particularly interesting because it lies so close to genes that are gatekeepers for the malaria parasite's invasion machinery.

The former target, say, using gene editing techniques to inactivate HIV receptors and achieve resistance of blood cells to the virus (which Sangamo BioSciences is working on in clincial trials) is different than helping parents who both carry genes for Huntington's Disease to have a child that is free of the disease (a change to the genome that would be passed on to future generations and would likely not be very commonly needed).

One species, Glycine tomentella, was of particular interest because it has genes for resistance to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode, he said.

She has tracked dramatic increases in the prevalence of several genes and suites of genes coding for drug resistance.

The team cut and pasted a bovine gene for NRAMP1, a protein linked to resistance against TB and other bacterial infections, into fetal dairy cow genomes.

But bacteria can pass on the genes for antibiotic resistance, so any source of resistance is concerning.