I am genetically designing a make belive plant in class and need help getting st
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I am genetically designing a make belive plant in class and need help getting started. My idea was "no mow" grass. I need about a paragraph about how to go about this including specific points to focus on to maintain plant life but stop the continuous growing. Whether i should look at crossbreeding plants or how to Genetically modify.
Be scientific but not overboard.
Proposed characteristics and features of your genetically designed plant; includes discussion of why you feel these modifications would be needed and how they would be beneficial.
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Explanation / Answer
To develop a genetic modification in a plant, we must study the genes that are responsible growth of that plant, and then we need to change or inhibit the expression of those genes in a manner that plant must maintain its life, but stop the continuous growing.
For example, it was proven that the growth of the rice plant depends on the water uptake; for the shake water up takes it can develop many adventitious roots. So, the scientists were read the genes that are responsible for the overgrowth of Adventitious roots and inhibited their action, hence rice plants could able grow, but its rate of production has reduced. Hence, the enhanced that gene action, in order to increase root growth. So, the rate of production increases with the over expression of root genes.
So, here you are considering a "no mow" grass. It is an ornamental one, so if you reduce the gene expression of adventitious roots of this grass, then it could consume less water and grow very slowly. It is a complex process depends on molecular biology, tissue culture and horticulture, etc.
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