Many genetically engineered food crops expected in the future will incorporate genes collected from plant and microbial species in the tropics.
Some of the trees, Dee's group leader had said, incorporated human genes as well as plant genes.
Various existing systems, such as gene injection, retrovirus delivery, or incorporating desired genes into undifferentiated embryonic cells, make this relatively simple.
Turkey berry is being crossed with eggplant in an attempt to incorporate genes for resistance to Verticillium wilt into the vegetable (Bletsos and others 2001).
For example, Doolittle has proposed that protists that consume bacteria as food may incorporate bacterial genes into their genomes [ 23].
Most important, it is one of a small class of viruses, known as lentiviruses, that can incorporate genes into the chromosomes even of nondividing cells.
Dr. Verma's lab has used the vector to incorporate genes into the brain, liver, muscle, bone marrow and retinal cells of rats or mice.
Other phylogenetic studies, which also incorporated nuclear genes, affirmed the distinction between Akodontini and the new group.
If the hybrid incorporates genes from both cells, it will be able to survive in the toxic media.
Scientists at the company are working to incorporate genes from each of the two disease organisms into vaccinia viruses.