Team:Lanzhou

Lanzhou

Lanzhou2017

Pests and weeds are significant damages tot the crop field, which has been causing huge loss of agricultural economy.

And the traditional pesticides will easily cause resistance and pollution problem...

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We utilized E.coli as dsRNA manufactory , which is much cheaper and more convenient than Chemical synthesis. And we constructed three kinds of vectors for dsRNA producing...

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We noticed that many weeds are perennial plants, and they always chosen by pests as natural shelters to survive the brutal winter.

This phenomenon inspired us to wipe out weeds and pests together by a method—tandem RNAi, which means triggering RNA interference in at least two organisms at the same time...

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