Sentences with phrase «to engineer plants»
But the truth is, genetically engineered plants exist for a single reason: profits.
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British researchers have genetically engineered plants which produce a sky - blue glow when under stress.
The safety assessment of all foods derived from genetically engineered plants is based on the evaluation of these foods relative to their conventional counterparts that have a history of safe use.
Roots of engineered plants with less TA - G were considerably more attacked by cockchafer larvae.
President Obama speaks after touring Rolls - Royce Crosspointe engineering plant in Virginia on Friday.
Some technologies focus on improved ways of breaking down biomass for conversion into fuel, some on engineering plants with the characteristics most advantageous for biofuels, and still others on creating co-products that can help make advanced biofuels economically viable.
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Angelo Spena, a biologist at the University of Verona in Italy, with collaborators from Italy and Germany, found a way to get around the seed problem entirely by engineering plants that produced fruit, even when unfertilized.
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Genetically engineered plants designed to control pests can have negative side - effects on beneficial insects and further non-target organisms as well.
His team is trying to engineer the plant Arabidopsis (a weed often used for genetic experiments) to use CAM by inserting the relevant genes into the plant.
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.
«Not only will knowledge about this gene enable us to detect the early signs of pests evolving resistance to the current engineered plants,» co-author Fred Gould of North Carolina State University notes, «it may also allow us to modify the plants so they will be defended against the new pest strains.»
In specially engineered plants lacking SWEET9, the team found that nectar secretion did not occur but sugars rather accumulated in the stems.
But other researchers have previously shown that it's possible to engineer plants so that lignin remains high in the vessels but is reduced in plant cell walls, allowing these plants to grow just as tall as their unaltered cousins.
Detecting engineered plants is only likely to get harder.
Other areas of Browse's research involve engineering plants to better survive low temperatures, and studies on how plant membranes use signaling systems to ward off attacks by fungi and bacteria.
Canola is a genetically engineered plant developed in Canada from the rapeseed plant, which is part of the mustard family of plants.
A batch of genetically engineered plants orbiting Earth on board the ISS may have something to say about this.
Genetically engineered plants offer the world very little of benefit that conventional breeding has not already produced.
From three million trees planted in Mexico City to an industrial engineer planting mini-forests in Indian cities, there are some hopeful signs that urban forestry may be undergoing a global revival.
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Related research also focuses on engineering plants to produce more sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels and petrochemicals.
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.
Uflex's aseptic liquid packaging material manufacturing plant located in Gujarat, India, has an annual production capacity of 7 billion packs, while its aseptic filling machines are manufactured at the company's engineering plant in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
Biotechnology patents are subject to the same protection period as other patents but complex life forms such as genetically engineered plants and animals are not patentable in Canada.
One of the most popular Kickstarter launches of the last several years was the Glowing Plant Kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly half a million dollars in 2013 to create a genetically - engineered plant that could glow in the dark.
Cabrera envisions 3 - D printers being able to create entire living things — like genetically engineered plants that can pull extra carbon dioxide from the air.
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Our preliminary research has shown that even as the engineered plants produce more oil, they continue to produce sugar.
We call these engineered plants lipidcane.
Our lipidcane research also includes genetically engineering the plant to make it photosynthesize more efficiently, which translates into more growth.
In April, the US government launched a National Bioeconomy Blueprint, which foresees hugely increased biofuel use and the construction of giant refineries that churn out plastics, fibres and chemicals made by genetically engineered plants.
«We saw a 50 per cent drop in damage to the engineered plants, compared with the controls.
The researchers looked to see whether consuming oil from the engineered plants was as beneficial as EPA rich — fish oil.
It could also provide agricultural scientists with new tools to engineer plants and crops that can deal with droughts and high temperatures like those now affecting the Southwestern United States.
Take the Kickstarter project to engineer a plant that glows green, for example, or Keasling's idea of making yeasts that will convert sugars into brand - new beer flavors.
That's why researchers are engineering plants to produce key parts of viruses and bacteria, in the hope that the human body will take them for invaders and start producing antibodies against the organisms.
«Understanding how the nematode modulates its host is going to help us exploit new technologies to engineer plants with enhanced resistance to this terribly devastating pathogen,» Mitchum said.
Understanding this system could provide researchers with a method to engineer plants to be resistant to the parasite.
The findings could pave the way to new techniques to engineer plants to produce better crops or to turn off certain genes.
Because most people don't eat enough fish to get the recommended amount of EPA, and because fisheries are already in decline, researchers have been trying to engineer plants with enzymes to make EPA.
«This is looking very far into the future,» he says, «but perhaps these new models could even lead to genetically engineering plants to uptake more air pollution.»
One of the team's goals is to make commercial products using oils from the engineered plants.