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Utilization of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus as a Knockout Vector in Plant Genomics.
While orange cauliflower may seem unappealing to some, it has distinct nutritional advantages. Cornell researchers have identified the genetic mutation behind the unusual hue, which may lead to more nutritious staple crops, including maize, potato, rice, sorghum and wheat.
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The following practices are general guidelines that many, if not, most farmers in New Jersey already practice. It is felt that all farmers should be able to adopt these guidelines on 100% of their acreage within a 3-year period.
This member of the cabbage family takes its name from the Latin words caulis, meaning stalk, and floris, meaning flower. As the head forms, the cauliflower crown is shaded from the sun in order to protect its milky white color; this prevents chlorophyll from developing and turning it green.
The CaMV promoter gene has been found to be a "hot spot" for recombination leading to exchange of gene sequences at elevated frequency (Ho et al Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease (no.4,1999)..
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