Sentences with phrase «with plant genes»

BIOTECHNOLOGY is up in court next week, when a lay jury of 16 members of the British public will deliver its verdict on the rights and wrongs of tinkering with plant genes.

Not exact matches

Just as we now routinely shuffle the genes of plants and animals to produce a variety of outcomes (smarter, bigger, leaner), so we stand on the very edge of attempting the same thing with human beings.

Those who feel there is something «unnatural» about introducing human genes into animals or plants forget that we share a high proportion of our genes with these species already: it is precisely this collective heritage that allows experiments on frogs to spawn treatments for human cancer.

Therefore, the plants with genes for superhot chiles had more offspring than the chiles with other parents.The mutation was discovered in 2016 by Dr. Peter Cooke of the New Mexico State University Core University Research Resources Laboratory.

By adding these new genes, genetic engineers hope the plant will express the traits associated with the genes, such as resistance to certain diseases or herbicides.

The advent of rice varieties bearing genes with resistance to the disease has changed the perception about the disease: the incorporation of host - plant resistance genes in rice varieties, their adoption and deployment in the world's main rice - producing environments is probably one of the most significant evidences of the role of plant pathology in agricultural development.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

Beyond this, the unique power of GM lies in its ability to incorporate novel genes with useful traits for rice, including genes from plants and organisms unrelated to rice, into new rice varieties that can not be achieved using other breeding methods.

The researchers identified several reasons for this: The new gene constructs interfere with the plant's own gene for producing growth hormones, and the additional gene constructs were not, as intended, active solely in the kernels, but also in the leaves.

It was a perfect storm of the right combination of capsaicin genes colliding with some stress on those particular plants that produced an abnormally high amount of capsaicin.

One of the main problems with genetic engineering is that the process of inserting genes into the DNA of a food plant is random; scientists have no idea where the genes go.

The result was an 18,000-fold improvement in noscapine output, compared with what could be obtained by just inserting the plant and rat genes into yeast.

«Currently, we are conducting a series of joint investigations on gene family evolution and adaptation genomics in plants with colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and we foresee more significant results from this collaboration,» says Xiao - Ru Wang.

Yet, in this plant (as well as in certain conifers), the researchers found genes similar to those responsible for the formation of flowers, and which are organized according to the same hierarchy (with the activation of one gene activating the next gene, and so on)!

ORLANDO, Fla. — Organisms as different as plants, bacteria, yeast and humans could hold genetic swap meets and come away with fully functional genes, new research suggests.

When the team induced expression of the corresponding gene in the leaves of two other plant species (one closely related to S. lycopersicum and the other more distantly related), both plants reacted to presence of the C. reflexa peptide with increased production of ethylene, and exhibited increased resistance to C. reflexa infestation.

She has been tinkering with genes since childhood, when, like an elfin Mendel, she spent long hours crossbreeding plants in her parents» garden.

Trickery is rife in the living world but in plants and most animals such trickery is instinctive - controlled largely by genes with little or no intellectual input.

However, last August a team headed by plant ecologist Allison Snow at Ohio State University demonstrated that this same gene might produce some very tough weeds: She found that wild sunflowers crossed with Bt sunflowers produced offspring that suffered significantly less insect - related damage and produced 50 percent more seeds than control plants without the gene.

Pioneer Hi - Bred International of Des Moines, Iowa, and Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis, for example, had invested heavily in developing a sunflower seed with a Bt gene that helps plants fight off insects.

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.

However, the positive impacts of biochar were coupled with negative findings for a suite of genes that are known to determine the ability of a plant to withstand attack from pests and pathogens.

Plants with the genes did not succumb.

Engineered organisms that can not breed with wild counterparts could prevent transgenic plants from spreading genes

Issued last March to researchers at a little - known cotton seed company called Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the patent covers a technique for transferring three genes along with their genetic on switches into the seeds of genetically improved plants.

In 2010, the environment ministry put on hold the commercial planting of GM brinjal, an eggplant variety, equipped with a bacterial gene that thwarts insect pests.

Three options are on the table: tweak cereals so that they form symbiotic partnerships with rhizobia as legumes do; colonise cereal roots with other types of nitrogen - fixing bacteria; or transfer the bacterial genes that make fertiliser directly into the crop plants.

To understand the genetic shifts underlying the repeated origins of mycorrhizal lifestyles, the researchers focused on enzymes that degrade plant cell walls from 16 gene families associated with plant cell wall degradation.

They added the gene to poplar trees, and found they could extract nearly double the amount of sugar from the modified plants compared with unmodified plants, suggesting the lignin was breaking down more easily (Science, doi.org/r6s).

The gene known as RD26 is activated, on the other hand, when plants are challenged with drought stress, Yin said.

Compared with earlier methods to tweak the genomes of bacteria, plants, laboratory mice and human cells, the Crispr - Cas9 gene - editing method is fast, precise and cheap, an order of magnitude better than the others.

No one knows where or when this happened, but plant pathologists discovered last year that yellow rust can reproduce sexually, suggesting the new strain may have picked up genes from local strains by mating with them.

«This is the first gene associated with hard seededness to be identified in any plant species,» Ma said.

Further crosses have introduced the tomentella genes into those of the soybean plants, creating soybean plants with 40 chromosomes and some of the most desirable tomentella traits.

To learn more about these growth - regulating genes, Dr. Inzé's team, in close collaboration with Dr Arthur Korte of the GMI (Austria) and the University of Würzburg (Germany), looked at the genetic variability of 100 types (accessions) of the Arabidopsis thaliana model plant.

Researchers have found a gene that promotes faster - growing and larger roots, which could lead to plants with a robuster ability to sequester excess atmospheric carbon

«Plants with one type of glyphosate - resistance mechanism make multiple copies of the target site for glyphosate, a gene called EPSPS.

Researchers looked for regions of each plant's genome that showed unusual patterns of variation consistent with past selective breeding acting on the VRN - D4 gene.

A catalogue of genes and repeated sequences was then created and validated, allowing for a comparison with other plants.

To figure out how corn and weeds affect each other's gene response, Clay and a team of two research associates and a soils expert, planted plots of velvetleaf alone, corn with velvetleaf and corn kept weed - free.

The axiom, «growing like a weed,» takes on new meaning in light of changes in gene expression that occur when weeds interact with the crops they infest, according to plant scientist Sharon Clay.

Even though the corn has only four leaves, the way in which its genes are expressed has already been altered through interaction with the velvetleaf planted alongside it, according to plant science professor Sharon Clay.

In one experiment, Dangl's team found that Arabidopsis plants with mutant versions of the PHR1 gene not only had impaired phosphate stress responses, but also developed different communities of microbes in and around their roots when grown in a local native North Carolina soil.

In all cases, Clay and Horvath found that genes were differentially expressed compared with nonstressed plants.

To grow a plant with better salt tolerance or pest resistance, scientists must first add genes to the embryo.

«The database is a precious resource for the research community studying plant - microbe interactions as it is an unbiased way to identify potentially interesting genes involved in interaction with a plant — including many totally novel genes.

This gene is associated with cytokinin responses within the plant cells and is fused with a jellyfish protein that glows green when turned on.

A team of researchers at the University of Bonn, in cooperation with scientists from the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, has now identified a gene in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), called NILR1, that helps plants sense nematodes.

With funding from Wine Australia, a team of scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Adelaide and CSIRO Agriculture and Food identified genes expressed in grapevine roots that limit the amount of sodium — a key component of salt — that reaches berries and leaves.

This is associated with more gene expression underpinning plant respiration.»