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Suresh was vegetable grower. He used to grow tomato and got very good yields since the vegetables market was far from his village and he had no transport facility, most of his harvest was rotten due to delay. He consulted his friend in Agriculture University who suggested him to grow transgenic tomatoes with delayed ripening genes. Answer the question that follow: - a) What are the transgenic organisms? b) How are the transgenic tomato produced? c) What value was displayed by Suresh‘s friend? |
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Answer» a) Those organisms which contains functional foreign gene. b) Produced by the introduction of foreign gene in tomato plant which delay ripening and offers high shelf life. Thus it helps in reducing post harvest losses.Flavr Savr Tomato was created by Agrobacterium mediated gene transformation in which the transfer of T DNA contained a copy of tomato PG (polygalacturonase) encoding gene in the antisense orientation c) He is concerned about his friends welfare and making his friend aware of the new techniques for delaying the ripening of tomato. |
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