Team:RIS BKK/Plant

Plant Synthetic Biology

Plant Synthetic Biology

The goal of our project is to allow plants to fix nitrogen on their own. We have shown that nifH containing plasmid from Agrobacterium have been successfully transferred into orchid petals, plants, through the process of GUS assay in plants. Once plants can perform the process of nitrogen fixation, the need for chemical fertilizers and the costs associated with growing rice and other crops should decrease significantly.