Team:Zamorano/Description

Our project

IGEM Zamorano Latin America 2015 project involves the creation of a bio-insecticide appealing against agriculturally important pests, which cause many considerable damage for crops, causing economic losses, as well as costs increases to obtain insecticides for its control. Our experiment consists in the construction of a BioBrick which includes coding sequences for PBAN pheromone, the Tu-Delf protein (which acts as bio-glue) and AaHit toxin (a deadly one for insects from a scorpion) . The particularity of this experiment is that a single construct can attract, adhere to the insect protein which allow us to make a single application and also remove the insect by the action of the toxin.

As iGEM Zamorano team, we have set the goal of creating a bio insecticide as project to provide a new solution to the various problems affecting both agriculture , environment and human health; We are working together and we will succeed because we have a commitment to ourselves , our families , society, our countries and the entire world.Day by day , fighting despite having other responsibilities, have we joined together for creating change in our environment , for open doors to future generations and get to them a better world, in where exist a sustainable, friendly agriculture to develop environmentally and socially responsible . This and more , are IGEM Zamorano 2015.