GM Tomato Resistance (Ptr 1 gene) to Bacterial Speck Disease
| Source | Web search phys.org/news/2020-09-newly-gene-grants… |
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| Organization | Boyce Thompson Institute |
| Website URL | btiscience.org/explore-bti/news/post/newly-id… |
| Market status | Under Development |
| Industry | Food & Agriculture |
| Value chain stage | Finished Product |
| Business models | B2B |
| Product categories | Food |
| Biotech components | Gene Editing + Plant |
| Organization type(s) | Research Institution |
| Funding types | Research Institution |
| Notes | "Recent research at the Boyce Thompson Institute headed by postgraduates Carolina Mazo-Molina and Samantha Mainiero and overseen by faculty member Greg Martin...has uncovered the first known gene to impart resistance to a particular strain, called "race 1", of the bacterium causing speck disease...With the discovery of this new gene, which the researchers have dubbed Pseudomonas tomato race 1 (Ptr1), damage caused by bacterial speck disease may soon become a thing of the past." |