How Plants Deal With Stress: The Science Behind Plant Stress Signaling
Since plants cannot move, they face many environmental stresses. Plants have to deal with changes in light, humidity, drought, or cold. And if that was...
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Lambda Red Mediated Recombineering
Over the years, scientists learned to exploit many aspects of genetic engineering using bacteriophages, in addition to transduction. One such method is Lambda Red Mediated...
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Plant Imaging
Most people are familiar with the phrase ¨A picture is worth a thousand words¨, and especially in the scientific field, it is useful because researchers...
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How Fruit Ripens
There are no words to describe the moment when eating a rich, juicy fruit. The scent, the taste, the whole experience when biting into ripe...
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Plant Omics Overview
If you’re new to omics, or not familiar, omics is a recent scientific field in biology, where large amounts of data are generated from the...
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Cloning Vectors: Essential Features
A “vector,” in simple terms, is an agent for transmission. For example, mosquitoes are vectors for malaria; western blacklegged ticks are vectors that transmit Lyme...
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How To Interpret RT-qPCR Results
You have just finished your real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR or RT-qPCR experiment. Now what? How do you analyze your data? To analyze your qPCR...
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Deep Overview About RT-qPCR
Real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR or qRT-PCR is a technique used in molecular biology that enables reliable detection and measurement of products generated during each...
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Guide to Plant DNA Extraction
Extracting plant DNA can be a little easier than RNA because DNA is double-stranded, making it more stable and less prone to degradation. However, don’t...
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Plant RNA Extraction Overview: Methods, Tips, Steps and More
RNA plays an essential role in regulation and gene expression, and functions during plant growth and development. Therefore, obtaining sufficient and high-quality plant RNA yields...
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Everything About Luciferin and Luciferase
Luciferase is an enzyme that catalyzes a light-producing biochemical reaction when it is in the presence of oxygen, ATP, magnesium, and a naturally occurring substrate...
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Transduction: P1vir Phage Overview - the mechanisms, characteristics and role in transduction
Transduction for genetic engineering of bacteria, over the years, has been standardized using the model bacterium E. coli and the bacteriophage P1. This has resulted...
