Transgenic plants
Across
- 4. Golden rice 2 was made by replacing _______ transgene of Golden rice 1 to have improved levels of Beta carotene.
- 5. Transgenic canola contains an antisense copy of a stearate desaturase gene, resulting in accumulation of ____________.
- 9. Selectable marker gene used for selection of transformed plant cells in the cointegrate type Ti plasmid vector used for generation of transgenic tomato plants with a truncated Bt toxin gene.
Down
- 1. Which lignin biosynthesis enzyme was targeted to make transgenic alfalfa plants for biofuel production?
- 2. Tobacco plants transformed with _________ gene showed increased drought tolerance by delaying drought induced leaf senescence.
- 3. Which fruit ripening associated enzyme was inhibited in Flavrsavr tomatoes?
- 6. Arabidopsis plants transformed with ____________ gene under transcriptional control of a seed-specific promoter, resulted in increased levels of Vitamin E.
- 7. Tobacco plants were transformed using hemoglobin gene from_________ bacteria to improve oxygen content and plant yield.
- 8. A low-molecular-weight nontoxic compound synthesized by plants that facilitates resistance to salt stress.
- 10. In transgenic Bt plants, the modified protoxin gene was placed under control of ______ promoter and downstream of a chloroplast transit peptide sequence, so that the over-produced protoxin became localized within the chloroplast.