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color: #FFFFFF;"><span class="coda"><roja>S</roja>exy <roja>P</roja>lant</span> | color: #FFFFFF;"><span class="coda"><roja>S</roja>exy <roja>P</roja>lant</span> | ||
| - | <p><br/>Sexy Plant is our environmental-friendly choice for pest control. We produced moth sex pheromones in <i>Nicotiana benthamiana</i> and released them into the air to produce mating disruption and avoid moth’s offspring, the larvae which are the real cause of damage. Pheromone production is under the control of a genetic switch to improve the plant’s resources usage. In addition, we designed a biosafety module to easily identify the engineered plant and avoid spread of the genetic material. </p> | + | <p style="font-size: 16px;"><br/>Sexy Plant is our environmental-friendly choice for pest control. We produced moth sex pheromones in <i>Nicotiana benthamiana</i> and released them into the air to produce mating disruption and avoid moth’s offspring, the larvae which are the real cause of damage. Pheromone production is under the control of a genetic switch to improve the plant’s resources usage. In addition, we designed a biosafety module to easily identify the engineered plant and avoid spread of the genetic material. </p> |
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<p>This is the core of our project. Sexy Plant is a pest control choice based on the production of sexual pheromones, which will confuse male insects and make them unable to find the female.</p><br/> | <p>This is the core of our project. Sexy Plant is a pest control choice based on the production of sexual pheromones, which will confuse male insects and make them unable to find the female.</p><br/> | ||
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