Sentences with phrase «transfer genes of interest»

During my time, more tools became available for plant breeders to transfer genes of interest and improve selection efficiency.

Not exact matches

As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconut.

Viral - mediated gene transfer now enables investigators to overexpress or knock out a gene of interest within highly localized regions of brain.

Beyond the interest these lateral gene transfers evoke in evolutionary biology, these results highlight the risk gene transfers could cause, in case GM - parasitoid wasps are produced, as genes artificially introduced into wasp species used for biological control could be transferred into the genomes of the targeted pests.

It might be interesting to ask if the gene editing would be of benefit to the embryo, would it be legal to transfer it into a woman to obtain a child?

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