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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Plant biotechnology"”.
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Interfacing living plants with nanomaterials for in planta sensing and plant biotechnology applications
Plants represent an important biological system which can self-repair, grow autonomously and generate energy from sunlight and photosynthesis. As sessile organisms, they have evolved complex internal and inter-organism signaling pathways with distinct structures to thrive in ever-changing and at …
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The endogeneity of science : the relationship of university research to industry and innovation
… this study exploits the exogenous entry into plant biotechnology R&D by pre-existing agribusiness incumbents in non-biotechnology clusters. I find that after the industry incumbents' entry into plant biotechnology R&D, collocated universities with the institutional capacity for industry …
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Spatiotemporal Interaction Networks in Plant Development
Plants comprise most of the biosphere, are a dominating force in biogeochemical cycles, and serve as the ultimate source of almost all human food and energy. Plant development is a continuous cascade of dynamically self-organised regulatory programmes triggered by endogenous and environmental …
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Physiological Responses of Cotton Genotypes to Water-Deficit Stress during Reproductive Development
… metabolism in leaves and flowers of cotton plants, and differences in drought tolerance among the genotypes would exist. Therefore, field and growth room experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of water-deficit stress during reproductive development on the physiology and …
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Free radical mediated oxidative stress in plant cancers
… oxidative stress and antioxidant protection in plant tissue cultures undergoing various stages of ageing and neoplastic progression towards a cancerous state. Two experimental systems were investigated: (1) <i>Beta Vulgaris</i> cultures comprising two fully habituated (cancerous), lines, one …
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Computational biology in plant tissue culture: Systematic evaluation of machine learning approaches for callus induction in Solanum L.: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
Optimization of plant tissue culture systems remains a major biotechnological challenge; yet successful callus induction, the formation of unorganized, proliferating cell masses from differentiated tissues, enables transformative applications in agriculture, medicine, and fundamental research. …
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Plasmonic Nanoplatforms and Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for in vivo Sensing: from Plants to Animals
… For this work, we investigated biosensing in plants and murine models using plasmonic nanoplatforms. In the first part of the work, we developed a wide variety of plasmonics-active substrates and nanoparticle-based sensing systems including inverse molecular sentinels (iMS) utilizing two …
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Technological Change and Agricultural Development
… Patent protection was introduced for plant biotechnology in the United States in 1985, and it affected crops differentially depending on their reproductive structures. Exploiting this unique feature of plant physiology and a new dataset of crop-specific technology development, I find …
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Expression of Human Protein C in Transgenic Tobacco
… g-carboxylation, and N-linked glycosylation. Plants have the eukaryotic protein modifying mechanisms required for many human proteins and may provide a safe, cost-effective system for producing hPC on a large-scale basis. Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is particularly well suited for use as a …
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Harnessing the manufacturing power of the plant system : production of recombinant human interleukin-2 in Nicotiana benthamiana
… melanoma and renal cell cancers. Using the whole-plant expression system, rather than relying on the current production platform of microbes would not only be cheaper, but the IL-2 might show greater biological activity due to processing in a eukaryotic host. The human IL-2 gene was codon …
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Genetic transformation of Ceratotheca triloba for the production of anthraquinones from hairy root cultures
… for the Degree of Master of Technology: Biotechnology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2012.
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Anticancer activity of ceratotheca triloba
… for the Degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in Biotechnology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.
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Evaluation of traditional South African leafy plants for their safety in human consumption
… for the Degree of Master of Technology: Biotechnology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2007.