Two notable exceptions are the following: Bacillus thuringiensis toxin (Bt)-expressing poplar trees in China; and papaya trees expressing the viral coat protein gene of papaya ringspot virus (PRSV ...

Analysis of the transgenic papaya genome sequence suggests that transgenes generally stay put following integration and can achieve stable expression level from generation to generation.

The disease, soybean severe stunt (SSS), may have been present in Delaware since 1964 as soybean plants exhibiting symptoms typical of SSSV were determined to be infected with the “bud-blight-strain” ...

Diseases like hibiscus chlorotic ringspot, botrytis, and root rot can also wreak havoc on your flowers. Luckily, most of ...

An example is genetically engineered papaya plants in Hawaii, which are resistant to papaya ringspot virus. In the future researchers are hoping to use genetic engineering to be able to overcome ...