Drought stress-inducible synthetic promoters designed for poplar are functional in rice.

Water deficit-inducible synthetic promoters, SD9-2 and SD18-1, designed for use in the dicot poplar, are functional in the monocot crop, rice.

Economic and Sustainability Impacts of Yield and Composition Variation in Bioenergy Crops: Switchgrass ( L.).

Economically viable production of biobased products and fuels requires high-yielding, high-quality, sustainable process-advantaged crops, developed using bioengineering or advanced breeding approaches. Understanding which crop phenotypic traits have the largest impact on biofuel economics and sustainability outcomes is important for the targeted feedstock crop development. Here, we evaluated biomass yield and cell-wall composition traits across a large natural variant population of switchgrass (.

Transgene Bioconfinement: Don't Flow There.

The adoption of genetically engineered (GE) crops has led to economic and environmental benefits. However, there are regulatory and environmental concerns regarding the potential movement of transgenes beyond cultivation. These concerns are greater for GE crops with high outcrossing frequencies to sexually compatible wild relatives and those grown in their native region.

Overexpression of soybean trypsin inhibitor genes decreases defoliation by corn earworm () in soybean () and .

Trypsin inhibitors (TIs) are widely distributed in plants and are known to play a protective role against herbivores. TIs reduce the biological activity of trypsin, an enzyme involved in the breakdown of many different proteins, by inhibiting the activation and catalytic reactions of proteins. Soybean () contains two major TI classes: Kunitz trypsin inhibitor (KTI) and Bowman-Birk inhibitor (BBI).

Functional analysis of soybean cyst nematode-inducible synthetic promoters and their regulation by biotic and abiotic stimuli in transgenic soybean ().

We previously identified -regulatory motifs in the soybean () genome during interaction between soybean and soybean cyst nematode (SCN), . The regulatory motifs were used to develop synthetic promoters, and their inducibility in response to SCN infection was shown in transgenic soybean hairy roots. Here, we studied the functionality of two SCN-inducible synthetic promoters; 4 × M1.