In this article we will discuss about the antisense RNA in cut flower industry. Presently, cut flower industry is billion dollar business worldwide and extends trade of worth over 25 billion US dollar per annum. Several major countries particularly Germany, Netherland, TTS share a major chunk of cut flower business and their market turnover reaches 3-5 billion US dollar. The [...]
In this article we will discuss about the antisense RNA in post harvesting improvement of plants. Engineering of Fruit Ripening Process: Efficacy of antisense RNA technology in post harvesting has been implicated well in extending shelf life of fruits, vegetables and vase life of flowers. Infact the first genetically modified products commercialized in markets were calgenes flavr savr tomatoes. Antisense [...]
Natural occurrence of antisense RNA and its role in gene regulation have been realised long ago. Gene expression in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes are controlled by the product of regulatory gene, which are supposed to be proteins only. Recently, naturally occurring regulatory gene that directs the synthesis of RNA which can control gene expression. This newly discovered RNA repressor can [...]