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 [...]
The following points highlight the three main omic technologies in plant biotechnology. The technologies are: 1. Transcriptomics 2. Metabolomics 3. Phenomics. Technology # 1. Transcriptomics: Utility of microarray and sequence-based process to expression profiling fueled additional approach to current genomic data within bioinformatics. Microarray technology helps in gene expression analysis in many plant species. Sequence based methods have real potential [...]
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 [...]