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SSTi-SZGD---Home

A product for the degradation
of soil pesticide residues

China is a large agricultural country that supports a population of over 1.4 billion. With the large demand of food products and commodities, pesticide usage increases annually. The hidden problem of pesticide residues on both human health and environment started to emerge and attracted attentions. This year, SSTI iGEM team strives to apply synthetic biology method to solve this environmental and health issue from the origin: soil.

We used a state-of-art light control expression system in E. coli. to efficiently and effectively produce hydrolases that degrade two mostly used pesticides: organophosphate and carbendazim. By using this light control gene expression system, we omit the usage of chemical inducers, which makes the entire production procedure more convenient, economical, and reversible. Furthermore, we designed an automatic spraying system that helps farmers using our products in the farmland. Altogether, we hope to help protecting our health and environment, and contribute to the sustainable development in China.

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-					This year our project is to use a light inducible system to control the gene expression of recombinant genes. We used this system to replace chemical induction mechanism as it is more convenient, cost-effective and reversible. We apply this light control system to express a gene that encodes hydrolase to degrade pesticide residues.
+					China is a large agricultural country that supports a population of over 1.4 billion. With the large demand of food products and commodities, pesticide usage increases annually. The hidden problem of pesticide residues on both human health and environment started to emerge and attracted attentions. This year, SSTI iGEM team strives to apply synthetic biology method to solve this environmental and health issue from the origin: soil.
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-					As we know china is a large agricultural country, and pesticides residues is a big issue for environment. We hope to develop a method that degrades pesticides residues in soil and water efficiently and effectively. We believe this has a strong implication in sustaining development.
+					We used a state-of-art light control expression system in E. coli. to efficiently and effectively produce hydrolases that degrade two mostly used pesticides: organophosphate and carbendazim. By using this light control gene expression system, we omit the usage of chemical inducers, which makes the entire production procedure more convenient, economical, and reversible. Furthermore, we designed an automatic spraying system that helps farmers using our products in the farmland. Altogether, we hope to help protecting our health and environment, and contribute to the sustainable development in China.
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