Team:UNITN-Trento
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- | <p>Hi everybody!</p> | + | <p>Hi everybody, our team is proud to introduce you <i>B. fruity</i>!</p> |
- | <p> | + | <p><i>B. fruity</i> envisions a new environmental friendly way to control fruit ripening by exploiting an engineered, light-regulated strain of <i>B. subtilis</i>. The system works by synthesizing ethylene or methyl salicylate (MeSA) upon photoinduction.</p> |
<p><b>Ethylene</b> is a plant hormone widely used to ripen fruit. However its synthesis, handling, and storage is expensive and dangerous. In contrast, <i>B. fruity</i> produces ethylene from inexpensive material by hijacking a metabolic intermediate: 2-oxoglutarate. Our system converts this metabolite to ethylene through the activity of an ethylene forming enzyme (EFE) from <i>Pseudomonas syringae</i>.</p> | <p><b>Ethylene</b> is a plant hormone widely used to ripen fruit. However its synthesis, handling, and storage is expensive and dangerous. In contrast, <i>B. fruity</i> produces ethylene from inexpensive material by hijacking a metabolic intermediate: 2-oxoglutarate. Our system converts this metabolite to ethylene through the activity of an ethylene forming enzyme (EFE) from <i>Pseudomonas syringae</i>.</p> |
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Achievements
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- Built and submitted 16 New BioBricks;
- Successfully characterized 6 BioBricks;
- Improved 3 parts;
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- Hosted a high school student in the lab for the summer;
- Asked the opinion of local fruit consumers on our project;
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- Designed a fruit Vending Machine and a Home Edition B. fruity market product;
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- Ripened 5 bananas, 5 tomatoes, 3 kiwis, 2 plums, 2 apples;
- Eaten one banana bread, one plums crumble and one apple strudel.
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