DDT's Resurrection

Resurrection

The golden era of molecular biology has paved the way for us now to tweak, fix, engineer, or even entirely synthesize genomes at levels and scales never seen before. Sequencing technologies continue to improve at exponential rates and have yielded powerful new insights into organisms of the distant past, as well as those that co-inhabit the planet with us. The era of genomics has ushered in the...

Resurrection Plants

Trehalose-6-phosphate synthase (TPS), as the key enzyme for the synthesis of plants trehalose, has effects of enhancing its anti-dehydration, as well as protecting biofilm, proteins, and others from harm. Additionally, reproductive isolation between species can be broken with transgenic technology, and beneficial gene of other species can be transformed and utilized to improve resistance of cro...

DDTs and PCBs in the Adriatic Sea

A review and discussion of analytical developments in the determination of DDTs and PCBs in sea environment are presented, including sample treatment, clean-up, identification and quantitative determination by gas-liquid chromatography. The fates of chlorinated hydrocarbons in the sea are discussed with regard to the pollutant-particle association with surfaces and their dynamics in a coastal m...

Effects of Different Fertilizers on Soil-borne DDTs Dynamics and Its Impacts on DDTs Uptake by Ipomoea aquatica

A pot experiment was conducted to examine the effects of.various fertilizers on the dynamics of soil-borne DDTs and their subsequent impacts on DDTs uptake by a test plant. The results show that there was a significantly lower soil residual DDTs concentration in the iron-rich fertilizer-treated soil than in other fertilizer-treated soils. However, all the non-iron-rich fertilizers showed no sig...

Resurrection of the Rentier