Publication about editing of 5´Utr sequences in potato
We report the generation of edited potato lines with improved storage performance by editing the 5´UTR region of the vacuolar Invertase alleles.
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Visit of the Cooperation Minister and the Leuven Mayor at TCI Lab
Today TCI Laboratory and The Alliance/Bioversity hosted the Minister of the Belgian Cooperation and the Mayor of Leuven for the visit of the world banana collection.
Publication in Green chemistry
We report innovative extraction and applications of biopolymers from cassava in a recent publication in Green Chemistry.
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Opinion about the european Legislation on Genome edited plants
Together with colleagues from KU Leuven and University of Tuebingen we reflect on the promise of the expected European legislation on genome edited plants.
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Harnessing plant viruses in the metagenomics era
We review technologies and ongoing efforts to study plant viruses capitalizing on recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies.
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Publication in New phytologist
We report the development of a pipeline to monitor the production of biological nitrification inhibitors in wheat. Ongoing screening of several crop species to improve nitrogen cycling in various agrosystems.
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