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| An ambitious challenge of plant biotechnology is to increase cereal crop productivity by engineering plants to fix their own nitrogen, i.e. by functional expression of bacterial N2 fixation (nif) genes in the plant. Balanced expression of a minimum of 9 nif genes is required to mature nitrogenase structural polypeptides into their catalytically active forms. Both nitrogenase components, as well as most proteins required for the assembly of their metal clusters, are very sensitive to O2. The initial hypothesis of this work is that the mitochondrial matrix could provide a low O2 environment appropriate for the assembly and the activity of nitrogenase components. Advances towards obtaining proof of concept for this hypothesis are presented | |
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Internacional
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Si |
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ISSN o ISBN
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0000000000 |
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Entidad relacionada
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3rd Synthetic Biology Congress |
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Nacionalidad Entidad
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Sin nacionalidad |
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Lugar del congreso
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Londres |