Improvement of Oilseed Qualities by Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering of Livestock Improvement

Escherichia coli K5 heparosan fermentation and improvement by genetic engineering.

N-acetyl heparosan is the precursor for the biosynthesis of the important anticoagulant drug heparin. The E. coli K5 capsular heparosan polysaccharide provides a promising precursor for in vitro chemoenzymatic production of bioengineered heparin. This article explores the improvements of heparosan production for bioengineered heparin by fermentation process engineering and genetic engineering.

Engineering Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum Resistance in Oilseed Crops

The fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary is worldwide in distribution and pathogenic to more than 400 plant species. This disease causes significant yield losses of various important crops including sunflower, canola, and soybean. Applying fungicides and crop rotation are currently the major methods of controlling this disease. However, fungicide chemicals are expensive, not ...

Genetic Engineering for the Improvement of Forage Grass Quality

The forage quality of warm season perennial grasses grown in the Southern States, subtropics, and the tropics is often inadequate and is a major limitation to satisfactory animal performance. Quality improvement of those warm season grasses has been a high priority research objective in breeding programs. Hammond (1987) pointed out that C4 tropical and subtropical grasses generally have lower q...

Engineering Personal Service Assistants with Lifelike Qualities

The shift towards highly personalised interfaces in which communication between user and computer is mediated by lifelike agents is currently one of the major steps in the evolution of the user interface technology. Anthropomorphizing the Personal Service Assistant, hence, constitutes an important aspect of current interface-agent research aiming towards highly personalised services. Our resear...