Biotechnology requires robust and predictable expression of transgenes. Most commercial Genetically Modified (GM) crops contain the viral 35S promoter to drive insecticide and herbicide resistance genes. In cotton there have been reductions in efficacy of Bacillus thuringiensis toxin (Bt) expressing plants late in the season that have been attributed to reductions in promoter activity. We have ...

Substrate specificity of thiamine-pyrophosphate-dependent 2-oxo-acid decarboxylases in 1 Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2 3 Gabriele Romagnoli , Marijke A.H. Luttik , Peter. Kötter , Jack T. Pronk , Jean-Marc 4 Daran 1,2,4# 5 6 Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC 7 Delft, The Netherlands 8 Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, P.O. Bo...

T he terms biotechnology and biopharmaceutical describe many complex and important products, technologies, R&D, and industries. Most people, particularly those within the industry, presume that a biopharmaceutical involves biotechnology, but this connection is often ignored or rejected. That causes problems in communication and public perception. This article examines biopharmaceutical terminol...

Three distinct fields of gene manipulated biotechnology have so far been economically exploited: medical biotechnology, plant biotechnology and industrial biotechnology. This article analyzes the economic evolution and its drivers in the three fields over the past decades, highlighting strong divergences. Product and market characteristics, affecting firms' financing options, are shown to be im...

the major purpose of this study was to examine the advantages and implications of biogastechnology in the agriculture sector. biogas is one of many biomass energy sources, which includeanything that was once alive and that can generate energy (except for fossil fuels, which are notrenewable). to talk of biogas is to talk of agriculture, since biogas generation starts withagricultural waste prod...

  From the past several years, algal biotechnology has gained noticeable interests among research-based organizations and industrial sectors. Recent studies have provided considerable evidence that microalgae-derived bioactive compounds could play a vital role in bio- and non-bio sectors of the modern world. Microalgae-based industrial exploitability ranges from basic biomass-based food and fee...

A simplified serum-neutralization test based on enhanced green fluorescent 1 protein-tagged Classical swine fever virus 2 3 Yongfeng Li, Liang Shen, Yuan Sun, Jin Yuan, Junhua Huang, Chao Li, Su Li, Yuzi 4 Luo, Hua-Ji Qiu* 5 6 State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research 7 Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150001, China 8 9 Running title...

Biotechnology has been globally accepted as one of the important tools for direct application in agriculture. It has a strong and positive influence on the agricultural sector worldwide. Agricultural biotechnology includes plant tissue culture (PTC), applied microbiology, and applied molecular biology contributing to the production of crops with improved food, feed, fiber and fuel. The techniqu...

Background Innovative biotechnology firms play major roles in the development of biotechnology industry because of their product innovations. Since 2005, the Malaysian government has increased support towards the biotechnology sector to drive this industry forward. The aim of this paper was to identify the challenges in developing biotechnology industry from the prospective of private biotechno...