Memorias de investigación
Conferencias:
Engineering nitrogen-fixing plants: multigene transfer, targeting of expression to organelles and tissues, and other challenges.
Año:2015
Áreas de investigación
  • Ciencias naturales y ciencias de la salud
Datos
Descripción
Biological N2 fixation, catalyzed by the prokaryotic enzyme nitrogenase, is an alternative to the use of synthetic N fertilizers to increase cereal production yields. The strategy we are pursuing in an effort to increase cereal crops productivity is the direct transfer of nif prokaryotic genes into cereals. Because Nitrogenase is an O2-labile metalloenzyme which biosynthesis requires a complex pathway where numerous nif gene products are involved, the main challenges we face are the control of gene expression and protein accumulation in an O2 depleted environment and the stable and high expression of multiple transgenes. Our efforts are now focused on controlling expression targeting to different tissues and organelles and on studying the signals in transgenes that license gene silencing.
Internacional
Si
ISSN o ISBN
0000000000
Entidad relacionada
Synthetic Biology Congress
Nacionalidad Entidad
Sin nacionalidad
Lugar del congreso
Londres (Reino Unido)
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR Y COMPUTACIONAL
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, CBGP
  • Departamento: Biotecnología - Biología Vegetal