APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Agriculture Pesticide resistance ADVANTAGES: Protects against toxic environmental chemicals Expands the metabolic potential of an individual’s microbiome for detoxification ABSTRACT: Berkeley Lab researchers led by Susan Celniker, Ben Brown, and Ken Wan have developed a technology to address pesticide sensitivity in … [Read more...] about Probiotics to Convey Resistance to Pesticide Poisoning 2017-083
Agriculture
Novel Peptide Capable of Stimulating Disease Resistance in Plants 2016-030
APPLICATIONS: Biofuel feedstocks Agriculture ADVANTAGES: Synthetic polypeptide Enhanced disease resistance Robust immune response Target plants can be engineered to constitutively express the receptor and inducibly express the peptide ABSTRACT: Pamela Ronald and researchers at Berkeley Lab's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have discovered raxX, a … [Read more...] about Novel Peptide Capable of Stimulating Disease Resistance in Plants 2016-030
Synthetic Promoters Useful for Expression in Plant Cells 2015-049
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Bioenergy feedstock plants ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have invented a genetically modified plant cell or plant, comprising: (a) (i) one or more nucleic acids each encoding one or more transcription factors (or transcription activators) operatively linked to a first tissue-specific or … [Read more...] about Synthetic Promoters Useful for Expression in Plant Cells 2015-049
Increased Production of Storage Compounds in Seeds 2016-103
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Agriculture Biodiesel production ADVANTAGES: Substantial increase in seed oil yield No adverse effects on plant growth and development ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have employed an artificial positive feedback loop (APFL) to increase seed oil through the overexpression of a master … [Read more...] about Increased Production of Storage Compounds in Seeds 2016-103
Inhibiting Growth of Diverse Bacteria and Plant Pathogens 2018-006
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Agriculture for food, bioenergy, and carbon sequestration Human health research ADVANTAGES: Highly efficient in killing competing bacteria ABSTRACT: Researchers at Berkeley Lab's Joint Genome Institute in collaboration with scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the Swiss Federal … [Read more...] about Inhibiting Growth of Diverse Bacteria and Plant Pathogens 2018-006