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The climate crisis puts humans in a food crisis. Recent research offers a synthetic genetic circuit for plants to adapt.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id—The climate crisis we are facing makes production food increasingly threatened globally. Disasters such as floods, droughts, and extreme heat waves become obstacles plant. Not a few farmers lost big due to crop failure caused by these disasters.
Scientists also have to outsmart how plants can adapt to the climate crisis. New research opens up ways to create circuits genetics synthetic, before mankind was finally on the verge of global famine.
“Our synthetic genetic circuits will allow us to build very specific root systems or specific leaf structures to see what is optimal for the challenging environmental conditions we know to come,” said Jennifer Brophy, lead author of the paper who is an assistant professor of biotechnology at Stanford University, USA.
“We’re making crop engineering a lot faster,” he continued, quoted from news page Stanford University. He and his colleagues report their research in the journal ScienceAugust 11, 2022. The paper was titled Synthetic genetic circuits as a means of reprogramming plant roots.
Borphy and his team devised a way for plants to grow more efficiently and effectively. The design is done through a series of synthetic genetic circuits to control the decisions made by different types of plant cells.
This makes the plant design better able to collect water and nutrients from the soil. This provides a plant framework from which to design, test, and improve synthetic genetic circuits for application to other plants.
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