{"id":889,"date":"2010-05-13T00:53:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T11:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=889"},"modified":"2010-05-13T00:53:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T11:53:51","slug":"biotechnology-herbal-remedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"Biotechnology: Herbal remedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #666699\">Question<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699\">Research is involved in the production of transgenic plants to incorporate characteristics which make some of the very rare plants hardier to a wider range of conditions. Many of the medicinal plants are dicotyledonous, which means that Agrobacterium can be used as a vector in the production of these transgenic plants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699\">Describe why these plants are called transgenic plants and explain the human need and demand which is driving this research. Discuss the scientific basis for concerns which some groups have for the production of such transgenic organisms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Transgenic plants contain introduced genes\u00a0artificially\u00a0from another species or additional gene which is not part of it&#8217;s original genome. Human need and demand driving research is people in third countries need the plants to maintain health &#8211; not enoufh plants are left and they are in risk of becoming extinct, cutting off this resource for these people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Traditional breeding processes are very slow and seeds may not grow in areas where the plants are needed. New plants creased to meet specific need using genes from other or similar species to create chracteristics desired for growing purposes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Concerns<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Creation of super weeds by making weedkiller-resistant varieties, cross breeding with vigorous closely related weed species could allow genes to be transfered. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Using the R genes as markers in the bacterial vectors could lead to transfer of resistance within bacterial species by transformation. It will create antibiotic resistance in super bug. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Cross pollination with wild relatives will destroy the wild genome.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question Research is involved in the production of transgenic plants to incorporate characteristics which make some of the very rare plants hardier to a wider range of conditions. Many of the medicinal plants are dicotyledonous, which means that Agrobacterium can be used as a vector in the production of these transgenic plants. Describe why these &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biotechnology: Herbal remedies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Biotechnology: Herbal remedies - science4all","description":"Question Research is involved in the production of transgenic plants to incorporate characteristics which make some of the very rare plants hardier to a wider r"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science4all.blogtown.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}