Kyoto # Avoideer - From the Flask to the Field - # With one in nine people suffering from hunger, achieving global food security is now a more pressing issue than ever. One of the biggest challenges to achieving this goal is agricultural damage from wild animals, and in Kyoto, deer are the main cause of this problem. This year, iGEM Kyoto proposes a new solution that utilizes engineered E. ...
Austin-UTexas # Assa-cin: Controlling bacterial plant pathogens through a modular microcin expression system # Plant pathogens pose a serious threat to agriculture, causing around $220 billion in global crop damages annually. Our project aims to fight bacterial plant pathogens using microcins, an emerging class of antimicrobial peptides that many bacterial species secrete as a weapon for interspecies competition. To protect crops from bacterial pathogens, we engineered a modular system for secreting microcins from a plant symbiont to kill a target pathogen. ...
CU-Boulder # Milking the New Whey # Bovine milk production significantly contributes to global warming, largely due to cow methane production. This research begins to solve this problem by using the more sustainable organism, soybeans, to generate a genetically equivalent form of whey protein found in bovine milk. Soybean fields use less land, energy, and produce fewer greenhouse gasses than milk farms, making them more sustainable for milk production. This research uses synthetic biology techniques to bioengineer the whey proteins alpha-lactalbumin and beta-lactoglobulin in soybeans. ...
DKU # Citrus Guard # As a formidable infection, citrus green is threatening the very essence of citrus crops worldwide. 強力な感染症であるシトラスグリーンは、世界中のシトラス類の生産を脅かしています。 reference: iGEM DKU Team Information iGEM DKU Wiki
Duesseldorf # Fungilyzer: Engineering a Brighter Future for Agriculture # The Fungilyzer project offers an innovative solution to combat phosphate depletion in agricultural soils The project is inspired by the global challenges of phosphate depletion and eutrophication, driven by the finite nature of phosphate resources. It aims to revolutionize phosphate resource management and reshape agriculture by conserving the environment. Phosphorus is a vital plant macronutrient, comprising 0.2% of a plant’s dry weight and playing a crucial role in plant growth. ...
HNU-China # PHYTO-GARD: Innovative Reporting Systems Indicating Biological and Non-Biological Stresses on Plants # In the face of the pressing global food security crisis arising from the widening gap between population growth and limited arable land, our team at HNU-China presents PHYTO-GARD, an Innovative Reporting System Indicating Biological and Non-Biological Stresses. By introducing the NCED3-RUBY and GLR2.9-Bx reporter systems, we’ve devised a novel solution. The NCED3 promoter responds to drought conditions, marked by a striking red coloration in plant leaves when activated. ...
HUBU-WUHAN-CHINA # Insecticide Pro Max # The willow leaf beetle Plagiodera versicolora (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is one of the most important forest pests worldwide, which primarily feeds the leaves of Salicacease plants. In this study, a combined strategy of microbial control and RNA interference-based technology was utilized to manage the P. versicolora. Recently, our team isolated a Pseudomonas chlororaphis B3-3G strain that exhibits certain resistance to P. versicolora, but the insecticidal effect was not ideal. ...
IISER-Kolkata # Xanthacinator - Detection and Targeted Elimination of Xanthomonas, causal agent of Bacterial Blight of rice # India is one of the largest producers as well as consumers of rice and yet, our farmers are plagued by a host of diseases that cause immense crop loss every year. Bacterial blight, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae causes severe epidemic in rice fields across the country, and destroys upto 75% of rice crop in some cases. ...
Lethbridge # Engineering a Direct Detection Assay for Clubroot Pathogen in Canola Soil and Roots # Clubroot, caused by the pathogenic soil-borne protist Plasmodiophora brassicae, poses a significant threat to Brassicae crops worldwide. Characterized by the development of abnormal growths or galls on plant roots, clubroot poses a serious risk to our local economy by depriving nutrients and inducing plant death in canola, our most profitable crop in Alberta. Currently, farmers outsource detection to off-site laboratories which utilize PCR amplification, a process that is costly and time-consuming. ...
NDSU # – Not provided yet – # – No abstract provided yet – – まだ要約が提供されていません – reference: iGEM NDSU Team Information iGEM NDSU Wiki