Sentences with phrase «tobacco plant»

Most commonly the substance are the dried leaves of the tobacco plant which has been rolled into rice paper into a small, round cylinder called a «cigarette».

Nevertheless, who would have thought that the lowly and sometimes hated tobacco plant may eventually provide a cure and save the planet?

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TEV - B is a transgenic tobacco plant that expresses a mutated P1 / HC - Pro suppressor of Post Transcriptional Gene Silencing.

Krishna Niyogi, a co-author of the study and a Berkeley researcher, and Long found that increasing the level of three proteins the tobacco plant could help speed up recovery.

NT4.1.4 No NESTT, transgenic tobacco plant from control tank; NT4.1.5 NESTT, transgenic tobacco plant exposed to TNT - NESTT.

While the algal rubisco makes the photosynthesis more efficient, the tobacco plant wasn't completely engineered to mimic the whole process the bacteria use.

This plant may look like an ordinary tobacco plant, but on the inside it was engineered to express bacteria proteins which helps it perform more efficient photosynthesis.

The tobacco plant Nicotiana attenuata has a love - hate relationship with the hawkmoths that visit its flowers every night.

ASU researchers Qiang «Shawn» Chen and Huafang «Lily» Lai infiltrate a tobacco plant to produce monoclonal antibodies against West Nile virus.

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.

«We generated over 600 engineered tobacco plant lines that harbour different combinations of these additional genes, and analysed them in terms of the amounts of artemisinic compounds they acquired.

When a hornworm feeds on a wild tobacco plant, a touch of the plant's nicotine is diverted into the insect equivalent of a bloodstream.

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.

Ian Baldwin of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and colleagues have now discovered that the mix of GLVs produced by a tobacco plant damaged by a caterpillar and one damaged in the absence of caterpillars were subtly different.

When a team of biochemists spliced a bacterium's gene for making hemoglobin into a tobacco plant, they expected the transgenic plant to be a tad hardier.

Smokers inhale burned tobacco and tar along with toxic metals like cadmium and beryllium, and elements like nickel and chromium — all of which accumulate naturally in the leaves of the tobacco plant.

Editor's note (01/05/18): This article has been updated to clarify that the study by Stephen Long and others published in Science in 2016 involved improving the efficiency of photosynthesis in tobacco plants.

Genetically engineered tobacco plants, chosen to test the concept, managed the unusual feat of growing 14 to 20 percent more mass — meaning more crop yield — than untweaked plants, says Krishna Niyogi of the University of California...

The research began a decade ago, when astronauts placed about 2000 seeds from tobacco plants and a flowering plant known as Arabidopsis thaliana on the outside of the International Space Station.

Texas researchers are planning to use a combination of tobacco plants and podlike laboratories to speed the production of new vaccines

Seeds from tobacco plants and from a relative of the mustard plant also rode outside the ISS during the same 18 months on the EXPOSE platform, and 23 percent managed to sprout afterward.

She is an honors graduate of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln where she did research on tobacco plants and ethanol - producing bacteria.

This method may be more viable than edible vaccines for two reasons: The tobacco plants see no permanent genetic alteration, which means a much lower risk of an environmental impact, and the vaccines are extracted in a liquid and then administered as injections, meaning no rotten potatoes or unpredictable vaccine doses.

Researchers have successfully tested genetic manipulations to increase oil accumulation in the leaves of tobacco plants

Furthermore, when they killed these companion cells, it delayed flowering in both Arabidopisis and the tobacco plants.

He focused first on haemophilia B. Adapting a technique that he had previously developed to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes, Daniell and his group genetically modified tobacco plants to express human factor IX in their chloroplasts.

Far better, suggest Thomas Davis of California and Holly Marcun of Maryland, to produce tobacco plants genetically altered to produce less nicotine.

He used this genetically altered version as a Trojan horse to implant the protein into tobacco plants, which could then manufacture their own pesticides.

In the first human trial of its kind, a vaccine grown in genetically engineered tobacco plants has proved to be safe, paving the way to one day use it to help combat a potentially fatal form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

The first step in their process was to transfer the genes of the artemisinic acid pathway's core set of enzymes into the chloroplast genome of tobacco plants, generating what are known as transplastomic plants.

Eating wild tobacco plants produces such noxious breath in hornworm caterpillars that predators reel backward and flee upon encountering it.

For the study, MAbs were rapidly produced in tobacco plants in as little as ten days, giving promise to change the image of scourged product that causes lung cancer into a manufacturing system for societal benefits against infectious diseases.

When the researchers examined compatible and incompatible pistil - pollen combinations in tobacco plants, they found that S - RNase got inside the pollen in both cases.

Scientists have engineered tobacco plants to thrive in heat that would wilt the hardiest strains alive today.

When the researchers silenced the control gene, the engineered tobacco plants had up to 85 % less trienoic fatty acids in their chloroplasts than normal.

Made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical of San Diego, California, ZMapp contains three monoclonal antibodies produced in tobacco plants.

HHS's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), which was established to speed development of treatments and vaccines for emergencies, has contacted two other outfits that can make the antibodies in tobacco plants.

Kentucky BioProcessing in Owensboro grows the ZMapp antibodies in tobacco plants.

Genetically modified tobacco plants turn on photosynthesis faster when shade follows dangerous sunlight

These activities are being performed in the context of several public or industry - funded R&D projects, and the in house GMP - facility has been used for process development and production of clinical trial material in different expression systems, including E.coli, Pichia pastoris and transgenic tobacco plants.

A team of scientists from the University of Illinois has devised a revolutionary way of boosting crop yield of tobacco plants by 20 percent by adjusting their genetic makeup.

A new study, published in Nature Communications, explore — through genetically engineered tobacco plants — whether it is possible to develop crops that require less water per unit mass of production.

As this screen with the very low level of the ligand may have missed some responders, we increased the ligand to 10 µM TNT in our screening of 97 independent primary transgenic tobacco plants.

NT4.1.1 TNT and NT4.1.2 TNT, transgenic tobacco plants transferred to medium containing TNT; NT4.1.3 No TNT, transgenic plant transferred to medium without TNT; SR1, wild - type tobacco plants transferred and exposed to TNT; SR1 No TNT, wild - type tobacco plants transferred to medium without TNT.

Transgenic tobacco plants were exposed to the TNT ligand in their roots and examined for a ligand response in the shoots.

The most recent breakthrough was made by a team of British and American biologists who report they've successfully infused tobacco plants with bacterial genes — a first step towards engineering crops that grow faster, offer higher yields and use less fertilizers.

By increasing the expression of those genes, the scientists saw increases of 14 - 20 percent in the productivity of modified tobacco plants in field experiments.

Response of transgenic tobacco plants with one copy of each gene circuit, de-greening gene circuit and synthetic sensing gene circuit.

But researchers at Cornell University, USA and Rothamsted Research, UK claim they've managed to solve one piece of the puzzle: they've modified tobacco plants that produce functional rubisco from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus.