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<p>We are the 2015 National Yang Ming University iGEM team from Taiwan. iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) is an international synthetic biology competition hosted by the iGEM Foundation where renowned universities around the world participate. All iGEM teams concretize their creative ideas with synthetic biology and realize their concepts using scientific methods. NYMU has taken part in iGEM since 2007 and has been constantly rewarded for outstanding performances. </p>
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Cultivated potato is the world’s third most important human food crop and the number one non-grain food commodity (FAOSTAT2010) and the cultivation of which is also an important agricultural income in many countries. However it is also host to a wide range of pathogens, including Phytophthora infestans, the cause of the potato late blight and also pathogen to several other members of the Solanaceae family. P. infestans is the plant destroyer capable of attacking both potato foliage and tubers when temperature and moisture is suitable and has caused considerable annual losses in the production and processing of crops. What is even worse, if a single potato is infected by this kind of pathogen, there is a chance that the disease may spread to other potatoes in the farm via water and soil. </p>
 
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    This year, we shifted our focus to disease problems of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum), one of the world’s major grain crops. We hope to establish a well-rounded defense system via transformed microbes with synthetic biology techniques to reduce the prevalence of the potato late blight disease, a consequence of water mold (Phytophthora infestans) infection. Given the 2012 North Carolina, US and the recent Zhangjiakou, China outbreaks, we fervently hope to first construct the biological defense system in our local main producing origins of potatoes, Taichung City and Yunlin County, Taiwan. We seek to not only secure the supply of our food sources, but also to help farmers ride through the predicament.</p>
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  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp  The biological control of the disease has attracted much attention recently. Scientists from different countries has synthesized or discovered various bioagent inducing resistance and bacteria causing antagonistic inhibition. However, there’s no efficient way to prevent and fight against potato late blight. Also, the fungicide used nowadays is detrimental to both the pathogen and host.</p>
  
  
 
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Project Description

   &nbsp Cultivated potato is the world’s third most important human food crop and the number one non-grain food commodity (FAOSTAT2010) and the cultivation of which is also an important agricultural income in many countries. However it is also host to a wide range of pathogens, including Phytophthora infestans, the cause of the potato late blight and also pathogen to several other members of the Solanaceae family. P. infestans is the plant destroyer capable of attacking both potato foliage and tubers when temperature and moisture is suitable and has caused considerable annual losses in the production and processing of crops. What is even worse, if a single potato is infected by this kind of pathogen, there is a chance that the disease may spread to other potatoes in the farm via water and soil.


   &nbsp The biological control of the disease has attracted much attention recently. Scientists from different countries has synthesized or discovered various bioagent inducing resistance and bacteria causing antagonistic inhibition. However, there’s no efficient way to prevent and fight against potato late blight. Also, the fungicide used nowadays is detrimental to both the pathogen and host.