Descripción
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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
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Si |
ISSN o ISBN
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0000000000 |
Entidad relacionada
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Synthetic Biology Congress |
Nacionalidad Entidad
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Sin nacionalidad |
Lugar del congreso
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Londres (Reino Unido) |