Scientists are currently attempting to use genetic engineering methods to transfer the delphinidin gene from Petunia (petunias, family Solanaceae) or Delphinium (delphiniums, family Ranunculaceae) to roses.
The use of genetic engineering techniques to transfer desired traits in insect, disease, and weed control has provided farmers with new tools to control some stubborn problems (James, 2004).
In this paper, an engineering framework to transfer the lower bound fracture toughness between different temperatures in the ductile to brittle (DBTT) temperature region is proposed and validated for 0.55% carbon steel using 0.5TSE(B) specimens.
To the Editor: Re "A Crisis Long Foretold" (editorial, Dec. 19) and "Fed and Regulators Shrugged as the Subprime Crisis Spread" (front page, Dec. 18): Financial engineering now permits lenders to transfer the risk of imprudent mortgage loans to others.
This would deploy tricky engineering at great altitude to transfer water from the headwaters of the Yangzi to the upper reaches of the Yellow river across the Tibetan plateau.
Another excellent way, especially when dealing with multi-disciplinary products, is to transfer engineering processes into the virtual domain, starting with multi-physical simulations to reduce the need for physical prototypes.
By virtue of genetic engineering it is possible to transfer genes involved in Cd tolerance or accumulation in high biomass plants.
Instead of employing the natural PHB producers, which can depolymerize PHB and use it as a secondary energy source, metabolic engineering can be used to transfer the PHB biosynthetic pathway to alternative hosts that may have advantage over the natural PHB producers, in particular the lack of enzymes for PHB depolymerization (Uchino and Saito 2006).
In order to improve access to therapeutic polyketide compounds, heterologous metabolic engineering has been applied to transfer polyketide genetic pathways from often fastidious native hosts to more industrially-amenable heterologous hosts such as Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or Streptomyces coelicolor.
