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Team:Glendale Community College
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Who we are
We are Glendale Community College.
What applications can this have for real life?
Desiccation resistance is a major problem in Arizona agriculture. Being able to use these genes possibly in plants may improve agriculture within the desert areas of the Southwest, Africa, and the Middle East. This could help ease the problems of world hunger if food crops are able to grow easier in arid climates. Additionally, radiation resistance is very important for space travel. Papers have been published talking about using the resistance genes in D. radiodurans for space travel and that way plants could be more easily grown in space travel.
Why using materials from other teams?
Firstly, in science, adding validation data is always a very important and welcome resource. In addition to the validation data, the main goal of the project is to look for these same genes in a sister bacteria and see if those genes convey the same resistance.
Where we're from
Glendale Community College
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