Plant Genetic Engineering

Lifeasible has decades of experience in plant genetic engineering. Although the global crop yield has been improved over the recent years, The growth of crops in many areas are still stressed from plant diseases, pests and multiple abiotic stress such as salt, drought, coldness and heavy metal pollution. Plant genetic engineering, also known as plant genetic modification or manipulation, is the key that opens up the doors for introducing crops with valuable traits to produce plants that require fewer pesticides, fungicides, or fertilizers, and can be more resistant to stress conditions. Plant genetic engineering techniques allow direct transfer of one or just a few genes of interest, between either closely or distantly related species to obtain the desired agronomic traits. Aside from adopting genes from other species, plants can also be modified by knock-out, knock-down, or overexpression of their own genes.