The invention provides three novel disarmed strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens bacteria useful for the transformation of plants. The invention provides three engineered A. tumefaciens Chry5 strains or bacterial cells thereof which comprise the Chry5 strain chromosomal background and a disarmed pTiChry5 vector, and methods of using said bacterial strains or cells for transformation of fungal or plant cells, in particular dicot or monocot plant cells, including soybean, maize, wheat, and sugarcane cells. The invention further relates to the transgenic plants created by these methods.

The present invention relates to the fields of genetically modified Agrobacterium strains, vaccine adjuvants, and generally molecular biology and immunology. Provided herein are modified Agrobacterium strains that produce lipopolysaccharide (LPS) having reduced toxicity or detoxified lipopolysaccharide, and methods of obtaining such strains for plant-based production of biologics. Also provided herein are uses of reduced or detoxified LPS as adjuvants suitable for clinical use.

The invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule that improves aroma production in an orchid, and a cell and a transgenic orchid comprising the nucleic acid molecule. The invention further relates to a polypeptide that improves aroma production in an orchid, and a method for improving the production of aroma in an orchid.

This invention relates to an artificial salt tolerant protein NLEA with the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.1 and a synthetic method of salt tolerant protein NLEA comprising the steps of retrieving different types of LEA proteins from LEA database; making multiple sequence alignment on different types of LEA proteins to obtain conserved short peptides; selecting hydrophilic short peptides with a hydrophilicity index higher than 3.5 from conserved short peptides; arranging and splicing hydrophilic short peptides in the order of isoelectric point size from large to small, to obtain salt tolerant protein NLEA. This invention involves bioinformatics analysis by retrieving different LEA conserved amino acid sequences of LEA protein data. Physical properties are analyzed to find short peptides of high hydrophilicity, and such short peptides are arranged in the order of isoelectric point size and spliced to get a new hydrophilic amino acid sequence.

The present invention provides for a method for editing a genome of a mitochondria or organelle, the method comprising: introducing a DNA fixing template into a mitochondria or organelle comprising a target DNA in the genome of the mitochondria or organelle, such that the DNA fixing template replaces the target DNA, and optionally selecting or screening for a phenotype of an eukaryotic cell comprising the mitochondria or organelle, wherein the DNA fixing template causes the phenotype.

The present inventors aimed to identify the gene responsible for the temperature-sensitive male sterility trait in PL12 and to provide a method for producing conditional male sterile plants targeting the gene, and performed whole genome sequence analysis on PL12 and the original variety thereof to compare the two. As a result, it was found that there was a deletion of about 150 kb in PL12 chromosome 7. Then, as for this region, six types of partial deletion lines were produced by genome editing, and the presence or absence of the temperature-sensitive male sterility trait in each line was used as an index to successfully narrow the range, containing the responsible mutation, down to about 10 kb. Furthermore, as a result of creating a line with genome editing-disrupted functions of the two genes located in this region, the gene responsible for the temperature-sensitive male sterility trait was successfully identified. Further, it was confirmed that the functions of the gene could be suppressed to impart the above trait to Arabidopsis thaliana and tomato, as in the case of rice.

Disclosed herein are compositions comprising a polypeptide with at least two domains, wherein the first domain is capable of binding CD3 and the second domain is capable of binding to a cancer cell. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating cancer in a subject, comprising: providing a composition comprising a polypeptide with at least two domains, wherein the first domain is capable of binding CD3 and the second domain is capable of binding to a cancer cell; and treating the cancer by administering a therapeutically effective dosage of the composition to the subject.

Described in several embodiments herein are compositions, systems, and methods for targeted gene modification, targeted insertion, perturbation of gene transcripts, and nucleic acid editing. Described in several embodiments are nucleic acid targeting systems that include components of CRISPR systems, VirD polypeptide(s), and DNA polymerase(s).

A wheat variety designated A060013G1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety A060013G1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety A060013G1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety A060013G1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety A060013G1 are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety A060013G1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.

Mutations involving amino acid substitution were introduced into various sites of diphosphomevalonate decarboxylase (MVD), thus preparing a large number of MVD variants. Then, the variants were each evaluated in terms of a catalytic activity for production of olefin compounds such as isoprene. As a result, it was found that substitution of glycine at position with a different amino acid resulted in improvement in the catalytic activity. In addition, it was found that the MVD in which arginine at position and threonine at position in addition to the position were further substituted with different amino acids, respectively, also had the high catalytic activity.