United Kingdom
September, 2008
Source: PBL News Issue 14 September 2008
PBL has funded,
through its Technology Development Programme (TDP), several
projects led by Dr Penny Sparrow at the John Innes Centre to
generate crop data in Brassica with four of PBL's yield and
stress traits. Most recently, Penny has completed work on the
eIF2alpha translation factor which originated from Professor Don
Roth's laboratory at the University of Wyoming.
The results generated through this work show a significant
increase in harvest index in transgenic Brassica containing a
version of the eIF2alpha gene. The results demonstrate the
potential benefit of increasing yield in crops with this gene.
Over the last two years Dr Sparrow and her team have provided to
PBL an outstanding resource for proving the benefit of a number
of genes from PBL's yield and stress portfolio. The projects,
which include the recently licensed Flavodoxin gene (see
Newsletter 13), have had clear benefit in communicating the
strength of PBL's trait portfolio to the AgBiotech industry and
have resulted in an increased commercial uptake of these
technologies.
For more information, please contact Dr Lars von Borcke (lars@pbltechnology.com).
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