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Not Available In the summer of 1998 over 2.8 million acres of farmland in the Southern U.S. was planted in genetically engineered cotton expressing a gene derived from the bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). This Bt gene codes for production of a protein that is toxic to some of the most important lepidopteran pests of U.S. cotton. The future expansion of this new technology on more cotton acr ...

The long-term goal of this program is to develop a diagnostic platform based on affordable, disposable electrochemical sensors that will be accurate, sensitive, easy to use, quantitative and suitable for high volume testing. The assay system will be portable with a handheld reader and will be applied initially to the detection of GMOs in plants and plant products. The specific phase II objectives ...

Agriculture needs new bio-rational pest control agents to replace outdated synthetic chemicals. Safer, smarter, target-specific control measures are required for use in sustainable integrated pest management (IPM) systems. New technologies are essential to IPM in high value fruit, nut, and vegetable crops where the most widely used insecticides are organophosphates (OPs) and carbamates. In 1998, 3 ...

WE WILL CHARACTERIZE THE SERRATIA MARCESENS CHIB GENE BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN BIOCONTROL EXPERIMENTS. WE WILL GENETICALLY ENGINEER TOBACCO PLANTS TO EXPRESS HIGH LEVELS OF THE CHIB ENCODED CHITINASE IN LEAF TISSUE, THEN WE WILL EXAMINE WHETHER THESE TRANSFORMED PLANTS ARE RESISTANT TO INFECTION BY ALTERNARIA ALTERNARIA, THE CAUSATIVE AGENT IN TOBACCO LEAF BROWN SPOT DISEASE.

1. The effectiveness of hairpin RNA (inverted repeat) constructs that target iaaM will be compared to the opposing-promoter constructs which conferred crown gall resistance to 12% of the transgenic apple trees produced during phase I studies. Although not critical, a higher success rate will aid in the introduction of the gall-resistance trait into a commercially useful apple rootstock. 2. To test ...

THE PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO DEVELOP A COMBINED HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SYSTEM BASED ON DATA'S CLIPBOARD COMPUTR. THE CLIP BOARD IS AN IBM PC COMPATIBLE PORTABLE COMPUTER WITH BASIC DIMENSIONS OF 7"X10"X1.5" AND A WEIGHT OF 4 POUNDS. IT CON-TAINS A HIGH RESOLUTION (640 X 200) GCA MONITOR WITH A TOUCHSCREEN FOR MENU RESPONSE ENTRY BY FINGERTIP. THE COMPUTER RUNS A 8 MHZ HAS 3 MB OF A MAIN MEMORY (COMBIN ...

The overall objective of Phase II is to further develop and optimize biotrickling filtration of methyl bromide and to demonstrate the technology in the field. At the end of Phase II, the Energy Resource Institute should be in the unique position of being able to commercialize biotrickling filter systems for the safe and reliable treatment of methyl bromide air streams from fumigations. Supporting ...

There are three specific objectives. Once attained, the technology will be ready for pilot plant tests, with commercializatin to follow. 1. The mold that produces fumaric acid from glucose has a tendency to form large pellets. When that happens, oxygen shortage will develop in the pellet center that will make the cells to produce ethanol instead of fumaric acid. An objective is to further test tec ...

The overall objective of our Phase II research program is to produce a prototype that utilizes this method to deacidify paper, and prevent ongoing, in-situ acid degradation that is rendering it unstable. The workflow can be divided into 1) Mission and 2)Technical Objectives. Mission Objectives:The Library of Congress (LOC) provided the mission objectives for a successful MD treatment in 1990 by is ...

The goals of this PHASE II program are to further expand our Phase I findings to fully determine the major effects of pheromone source and application characteristics (i.e. the density of sources per area, the effect of formulation and release rate, and the amount of pheromone that needs to be released to obtain the desired effect) and the vertical positioning of the controlled release devices in ...