COVID-19 Treatment Efforts Using Plant Technologies |
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In December 2019, Wuhan City in China became the epicenter of a respiratory disease outbreak with mysterious origins, that spread to many countries immediately. To investigate the matter and control the disease roll out, suspected and infected patients were placed in isolation, contact tracings were conducted, and detailed clinical and epidemiologic data were gathered. These efforts led the Chinese experts to find the cause of the disease ̶ a novel coronavirus strain from patient groups in Wuhan. The outbreak is believed to originate from a local market in the City that sells wild animals as food.
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Plants Have Memories, But How Do Plants Forget? |
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An international research team has uncovered the answer to a decades-old question - how do plants forget? Like humans, plants have memories too, although they do it differently. For example, many plants sense and remember prolonged cold during winter to ensure that they flower in spring. This "epigenetic memory" occurs by modifying specialized proteins called histones, which are important for packaging and indexing DNA in the cell.
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COVID-19 ALERTS |
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NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD |
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS |
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PLANT BREEDING INNOVATIONS |
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GM APPROVAL UPDATES |
- Russia approved corn TC1507 for food, feed, and processing.
- Russia approved corn MZHG0JG for food, feed, and processing.
- Russia approved corn DAS40278 for food, feed, and processing.
- South Korea approved canola MS11 for food use.
- The Philippines approved corn Bt11 x MIR162 x MON89034 x GA21 for food, feed, and processing.
- The Philippines approved potato Y9 for food, feed, and processing.
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