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Emerging Research Techniques & New Instrumentation For Plant Biology, Bruce Bugbee
Emerging Research Techniques & New Instrumentation For Plant Biology, Bruce Bugbee
Techniques and Instruments
We have not achieved an efficient food production system in US Agriculture by manipulating only the environment.
Genetic engineering techniques now allow us to quickly develop new crop cultivars.
Identification Of Key Genes Required For Abiotic Stress Response In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Saori Endo
Identification Of Key Genes Required For Abiotic Stress Response In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Saori Endo
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
To identify key genes that are required for stress response, a reverse genetics approach was taken to manipulate expression of candidate genes in plants. In this project, two potential regulatory genes which were originally identified as stress-responsive genes from a microarray experiment in Arabidopsis were examined for their roles in stress tolerance. Over-expression of gene A, which was up-regulated under stress conditions based on the array data, caused earlier flowering and improved plant growth under salinity and dehydration stress conditions at the seedling stage. Over-expression of gene B, which was down-regulated under stress conditions based on the array data, resulted …