Team:CIDEB-UANL Mexico

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You are provided with this team page template with which to start the iGEM season. You may choose to personalize it to fit your team but keep the same "look." Or you may choose to take your team wiki to a different level and design your own wiki. You can find some examples HERE.
You MUST have the following information on your wiki:
  • a team description
  • project description
  • safety information (did your team take a safety training course? were you supervised in the lab?)
  • team attribution (who did what part of your project?)
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  • lab notebook
  • sponsor information
  • other information
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Tell us more about your project. Give us background. Use this as the abstract of your project. Be descriptive but concise (1-2 paragraphs)

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Team CIDEB-UANL_Mexico


Official Team Profile

Contents

Team

Tell us about your team, your school!


Project Description

What are you working on this semester?

The agriculture is a very important activity and is the base of our alimentation and the production of raw materials that eventually will be transformed into products or more complicated materials. Different technologies have been applied to agriculture to reduce important problems and some obstacles that decrease the efficiency in the cultivation of certain plants. One problem that affects considerably some cultures is the presence of plagues. Some insects cause a significant damage to cultures and reduce the quality of the products. In order to avoid or reduce the impact of these organisms, the use of pesticides has increased and it is very common in the cultivation of almost all plants. Nevertheless, the use of these substances causes damage in the environment by the contamination of water and soil. Nowadays we can find Genetically-Modified plants adapted to avoid these problems such as the GM maize: “The GM maize planted in Europe produces a substance that enables it to defend itself against a persistent pest known as the European corn borer.”1

Our idea is about a genetically modified bacterium which produces a biological pesticide (Vip3ca3) against target organisms: earthworms Bacillus Turingensis. The bacterium would be regulated by temperature and aims to control pesticide production. As it is a biological pesticide it does not harm the environment and affects only target species reducing the impact this could have in such environment and its effects on other species.


1.GMO Compass. (2008, December 3). Genetically modified maize in the EU. Retrieved from http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/grocery_shopping/crops/18.genetically_modified_maize_eu.htm

Notebook

Show us how you spent your days.


Results/Conclusions

What did you achieve over the course of your semester?


Safety

What safety precautions did your team take? Did you take a safety training course? Were you supervised at all times in the lab?


Attributions

Who worked on what?


Human Practices

What impact does/will your project have on the public?


Fun!

What was your favorite team snack?? Have a picture of your team mascot?


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