Team:Saint Joseph/Future
Future Work
Future Work
While the world is facing a major water shortage, we think that we should do something to protect our water reserves. Although our main aim is to find an alternative solution for cleaning the water contaminated by textile dyes, it is one of our biggest goals to take this solution one step further.
As a result of our research, we came across an article published very recently (May 2019). In this article, the laccase gene transfer by means of Agrobacterium technique was investigated and with the successful results obtained, it was achieved to clean dirty water through to the roots of tobacco plant. With this method, we have also reviewed the first in Turkey and the world, especially the textile and industrial waste polluted areas and also examined the vegetation of those regions to move our project a step further.
Ergene located in Turkey, is a river in the Balkan area. 280-mile river that bears the distinction of being the most polluted river by contamination of Turkey with industrial waste. Especially around this river agriculture is done and paddy fields are very common. In the world, Indonesia is home to the Citarum river, one of the dirtiest waterbeds. Approximately 280 tons of industrial waste and nine million household wastes are discharged into this river every day. And as in the Ergene region, it is observed that especially the wet rice cultivation is carried out in the Java region where Citarum River is located. As a conclusion, we hope that we can decrease the level of industrial pollution in these two regions by applying the transfer technique of Agrobacterium gene to the rice plant in our project.