A joint research team of Australian and Belgian scientists has announced a major breakthrough in genetic research that will help produce more nutritious, faster-growing, more productive crops. Taller crops.
The results of this research will also help to enhance the disease resistance, frost protection and drought resistance of crops.
Pierre Schenck, a researcher at the Australian Cooperative Research Center for Tropical Plant Pathology, said this innovation could save farmers a lot of money by improving agricultural production methods.
This gene promoter, or "gene switch," has been patented jointly by the Australian Cooperative Research Center for Tropical Phytopathology and the Catholic University of Louvain in Leuven, Belgium.
The technology has been successfully tested on a variety of plants including wheat, sorghum, millet, banana, sugarcane, and many trees, ferns, and grasses.
When the genetic switch found in the banana virus is inserted into a plant along with a certain gene, it helps control that gene, Schenck said.
This means more control over how plants grow, Schenck said. You can design plants to be disease-resistant or drought-resistant, and some will make them grow faster, while others will It has higher protein content and much more.”
Schenck also pointed out that this genetic switch will be beneficial to the development of the environment and human health, and will also meet the growing global food supply. needs.