The genetic duplicates, or paralogs, played a crucial role in shaping traits such as flowering time, fruit size, and shape.

At first glance, the long, thin leaves and pale green shoots of Stanleya pinnata, a plant native to the Rocky Mountains, can make it seem like just another member of the Brassica family—mustard and ...

Insect and pest resistance can be developed and inserted into the plants. The plant produces ... dengue fever and the Zika virus. Risks of genetic engineering: Transfer of the selected gene ...

An example is genetically engineered papaya plants in Hawaii, which are resistant to papaya ringspot virus. In the future researchers are hoping to use genetic engineering to be able to overcome ...

Metabolic engineering is the use of genetic engineering to modify the metabolism ... most commonly in bacteria, yeast or plants, with the goal of high-yield production of specific metabolites ...

In addition, genetically modified plants may someday be used to produce recombinant vaccines. In fact, the concept of an oral vaccine expressed in plants (fruits and vegetables) for direct ...