Team:UNITN-Trento

From 2013.igem.org

(Difference between revisions)
Line 17: Line 17:
     <div class="sheet">
     <div class="sheet">
         <div class="container">
         <div class="container">
-
             <p>Hi everybody!</p>
+
             <p>Hi everybody, our team is proud to introduce you <i>B. fruity</i>!</p>
              
              
-
             <p>Our team is proud to introduce you <i>B. fruity</i>, a system that 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><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>

Revision as of 08:03, 1 October 2013


Achievements
  • Built and submitted 16 New BioBricks;
  • Successfully characterized 6 BioBricks;
  • Improved 3 parts;
  • Hosted a high school student in the lab for the summer;
  • Asked the opinion of local fruit consumers on our project;
  • Designed a fruit Vending Machine and a Home Edition B. fruity market product;
  • Ripened 5 bananas, 5 tomatoes, 3 kiwis, 2 plums, 2 apples;
  • Eaten one banana bread, one plums crumble and one apple strudel.