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Revision as of 19:53, 14 October 2016
Our team has been working on the iGEM-2016 project for two years. In this project, we used a crop plant rice (Oryza sativa L.) as chassis organism to produce a genetically modified organism (GMO) named aSTARice, which is able to produce astaxanthin in the rice endosperm. To achieve this goal, four genes derived from maize, algae, and bacteria respectively were expressed in transgenic rice driven by endosperm-specific promoters.
In the past two years, we have successfully held several public activities such as open laboratory day and a Bauhinia Scientific and Cultural Festival in our university, which attracted around hundreds and thousands of people to visit a laboratory of molecular biology, to understand how a GMO is generated in the lab.
During the period of our project, we gave several biology courses for middle school students, kids and farmers on knowledge about modern agriculture in the ruler countryside in our province. Thereby, we promoted the knowledge of synthetic biology and impact of iGEM in human practices.
Achievements
Plant Synthetic Biology
We used rice (Oryza sativa) as a chassis organism to establish a bioreactor, which enables biosynthesis of astathanxin in rice endosperm.
The experiences and BioBricks we developed will be helpful for future iGEM teams or labs working in other plants.
The heterogenous genes in our parts have been codon-optimized for plants.
In order to reduce potential influence on plant growth, all genes were driven by endosperm-specific promoters.
Our results demonstrated that our design work well in resultant aSTARice.
1. Risk assessment and marker free system is just a part of the effort we made to deal with the safety issue.
2. We successfully improve the performance of the previously existing BioBrick BBa_K118003.
3. Our BioBrick device work well under the lab condition.
4. Our BioBrick device work well under the real-world condition.
1. BBa_K1959002 works well and was documented in the Registry entry.
2. We help Guangdong Experiment High school students build a team and mentor them.
3. Our human practice focused on public awareness and according to our investigation，we modified our project and made a lot efforts on safety issue.
1. Team SCAU-China registered with great enthusiasm.
2. The Wiki and judging form has been full of our works.
3. Our project and poster will follow us to the Giant Jamboree.
4. We designed and submitted 3 BioBricks: BBa_K1959000, BBa_K1959001, BBa_K1959003.
