Are genetically modified (GM) plants the solution to achieving sustainable agriculture, clearing up pollution and eradicating ...

Comparison of different strategies to improve plant disease resistance. The five strategies were compared ... The strategies discussed here largely rely on transgenic process. The public’s attitude ...

Such research has resulted in the proposal of new methods to enhance host resistance ... mechanisms against insect feeding. Bergey et al. (1996) studied several systemic wound-response proteins (SWRPs ...

Indian agricultural minister has unveiled nation’s first gene edited rice verities- DRR Dhan 100 (Kamala) and Pusa Rice DST1. These varieties were developed by two laboratories of Indian Council for ...

For example, crops with diverse pest complexes, resistant pests, or fewer registered pesticides ... fumigants, nematicides, plant growth regulators, and vertebrate control agents. Figure 1. Total mass ...

CSIRO scientists helped develop this insect-resistant cotton variety, using a gene derived from a soil bacteria, Bacillus ...

In this study, we have used tobacco as a test regenerable plant system to ascertain whether we could obtain dinitroaniline herbicide-resistant transgenic plants overexpressing a mutant α-tubulin ...

Figure 3: Virus–induced symptoms in transgenic and control tobacco plants. By using PDR, high levels of resistance have been reached in the past (e.g., when using altered forms of the gene ...

Resistance to disease should mean a longer life, but researchers have found that a mutant protein that helps a plant fight ...

New research from Max Planck Institute reveals how plants defend their genomes from invasion by chloroplast DNA.

Scientists have reported use of antibacterial coatings made from resilin-mimetic proteins to fully block bacteria from attaching to a surface. A protein that gives fleas their bounce has been used to ...

Laboratory could improve crop resilience In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a specialized ...