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Transgenic Tomatoes Resistant to Drought

Filed in archive Food and Agriculture by ruth on December 16, 2005

Based on a technique first used in Arabidopsis, scientists from the Texas A&M University's Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center and Baylor's College of Medicine were able to engineer a drought-resistant tomato by making it over-express the AVP1 gene. This resulted to plants with more extensive root system, a crucial trait useful under drought conditions.

The authors of the study, whose work is supposedly published this week at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (unfortuntely, I can't trace the article) are optimistic of the impacts of this research:

"This technology could ultimately be applied to all crops because it involves the over-expression of a gene found in all plants," said Dr. Roberto Gaxiola, a plant biologist at the University of Connecticut and the lead author of the study. "It has the potential to revolutionize agriculture and improve food production worldwide by addressing an increasing global concern: water scarcity."

Source: AgNews, Texas A&M University

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Add your response to Transgenic Tomatoes Resistant to Drought: Response from: marny (12/19/05 10:17am) Very profound findings. I think that this one will surely give us a lot of help. Response from: ruth (12/19/05 4:15pm) so you are pro-GMO then, marny? Response from: seema (07/26/07 10:58pm) i m working on drought resistant transgenic tomatoes. so is more interested in this blog Response from: ashley (09/13/07 8:12am) this website was ok..but a friend and i are doing a research project for an agricultural class and this page did not really give enough information for anything... you need to work on being more descriptive and have a lot more information that would be more useful. Response from: Philoneist The Biotech Weblog is reporting on a Texas A&M project that has yielded a drought-resistant tomato by overemphasizing the AVP1 gene.Read the article.Read about AVP1.Nanotechbuzz has a feature about incipient nanomaterials emerging in architectural...
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