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He specialises in genetically modifying plants to produce useful drugs, a process called pharming, which he hopes will bring cheaper drugs to the developing world.
Genetically modifying plants to create healthier and more pest- and disease-resistant strains has dramatically improved the food supply.
The researchers believe this low-cost intervention could temper the impact of heat waves and droughts, and that further improvements could be made by breeding more reflective plants or by genetically modifying plants to bolster their reflectivity.
Dale's team had begun preparations to transport the modified plants to Darwin — airplane seats would be bought for them — where they would toughen up for a few months in "humidicribs".
And he carefully plucks the flowers off the genetically modified plants to ensure that they do not pollinate with any run-of-the-mill sweet potato varieties growing outside the ring of barbed wire.
Over the course of the school year, our ninth graders have grown into informed citizens who are able to think critically and empathetically about issues facing the world, from genetically modified plants to the efforts to rebuild after natural disasters.
Zhixiang Chen of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., and colleagues genetically modified plants to resist infection from the Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV), a virus that attacks many agriculturally important plants, including cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbages.
Agrivida has modified plants to reduce the amount of energy and chemical processing required to make this high cellulosic material suitable for conversion to biofuels by microbes.
Scientists have for the first time genetically modified plants to contain a particularly healthy kind of fatty acid in their seeds.
The team then exposed the modified plants to ultraviolet light or a fragment of a bacterial protein dubbed flagellin that mimics a bacterial infection.
The rapid advances that have taken place in plant genetic engineering have made it possible to modify plants to increase food production and contribute to environmental purification.
