Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies ...

Finally, although transgenic animals and mammalian cell culture systems ... Researchers incorporate recombinant genes into plant cell genomes to produce stable proteins using nuclear or chloroplast ...

Silicon (Si) is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, found in large quantities in soil. While Si is not essential for land plants, many plants, such as rice and grasses, have used Si to develop ...

“Eukaryotic cells arose through endosymbiosis ... Together with his technician Sandra Stegemann, he designed two transgenic tobacco plants, one carrying a resistance marker and YFP in the ...

Cutting-edge editing techniques are accelerating efforts to create high-yield, resilient varieties of major agricultural products.

Utility patents may be obtained for plants derived by cell culture, plants generated by selective breeding, and transgenic plants, but not for plants discovered in the field. Possible types of ...

ProdiGene was the first to successfully commercialize a product made from a transgenic plant—a protein called trypsin produced in corn kernels and sold to the pharmaceutical industry for mammalian ...