Genome editing technologies have become valuable tools in many aspects of scientific research, facilitating, for example, the identification of genes involved in development, or the determination of protein functions...
Tag - genetic engineering
Jess Upson
Enhanced water stress tolerance of plum plants transformed with cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase genes
Cytosolic antioxidant enzymes are a target to give durable resistance to water stress in commercial plum trees. Diaz-Vivancos et al. show improved tolerance to moderate or severe drought in transgenic lines, correlating...
botanyone
Good things come in small packages
And few eukaryotic things are smaller than diatoms, unicellular algae that are common, numerous and taxonomically extremely diverse, particularly in the oceans. Small? Yes, typically 20 – 200 µm in diameter. Good? Yes;...
Nigel Chaffey
GM crops, quantity or quality…?
GM crops can help, not only with the quantity of food produced worldwide, but also the quality. Golden Rice has enhanced levels of β-carotene.
A new website introducing genetic engineering
The Journey of a Gene is a new website at UNL-Nebraska that teaches the basics of genetic engineering. There’s a combination of videos, some from YouTube and some specifically made as well as some interactive...
Alun Salt
Tomorrow’s Table by Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak
Quite a few people have recommended this book to me, but I hadn’t made time to read it. My loss, this is an excellent book. I was told it was a good explanation about the uses of Genetic Engineering in farming. It...
A blooming marvellous innovation
I know that this year’s British summer hasn’t been much to write home about (and you would be writing home to the UK– who would have sojourned in that sodden isle given the choice?). But at least the traditional hay...
Carrot Transformation with Agrobacterium
This videoblog from is about one of the Cell and Developmental Biology practicals that I run at the University of Leicester for course #BS1003. It involves infection of carrot root slices with three strains of...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison