2. Audience Engagement
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8. WHY PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY IS
IMPORTANT
Assist in developing
crops with multiple
durable resistance to
pests and diseases
Reduction in pesticides
and herbicides
The genetic base of crop
production can be
preserved and widen by
an integration of
biotechnology tools in
conventional breeding.
Can provide us with
various food with
different quality
The raw material for
various industries
11. Agriculture remains an important sector of Malaysia's economy, contributing
7.4 percent to the national GDP and providing employment for 10.28 percent
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14. FUN ACTIVITIES
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16. ✓ Genomics-assisted breeding.
✓ Uses a powerful multiplexed approach
✓ Enables users to interrogate hundreds to thousands of
markers. Enables hundreds to thousands of samples
simultaneously.
✓ It includes NGS-based assays designed using customer-
provided markers or catalog panels designed with publicly
available markers.
Targeted genotyping by sequencing
(GBS)
17. A unique technology that enables to edit parts of
the genome by removing, adding or altering sections of
the DNA sequence.
CRISPR-Cas9
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18. The biological process of mRNA
degradation induced by complementary sequences double-
stranded (ds) small interfering RNAs (siRNA) and suppression
of target gene expression.
RNA interference (RNAi)
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20. ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE TECHNOLOGY
DNA-Binding Activity
It is important for DNA-binding activity in plants.
Plant C2H2-type zinc finger proteins have unique structural features: the
conserved, unique QALGGH (Q-type C2H2) motif and the long variable
spacers between adjacent zinc finger domains.
A mutation of any amino acid in QALGGH sequence except Q will cause the
protein to completely lose its ability to bind to DNA, whereas a mutation in Q
will greatly reduce its DNA binding ability.
RNA-Binding Activity
C2H2-type zinc finger proteins can recognize RNA. Zinc fingers
comprehensively recognize specific bases and specific folding backbones in
diverse RNA structures.
Contact with the phosphoric acid skeleton in RNA is essential for the
recognition of this molecule.
A phage display assay showed that the amino acids at positions −1 and +2 of
the α-helix in C2H2 zinc finger proteins are important for RNA binding.
Protein-Binding Activity
Zinc finger proteins interact with other zinc finger proteins or other types of
protein to regulate target gene expression.
Zinc finger proteins interact with other zinc finger proteins to bind to other
DNA sequences or to prevent binding to the corresponding DNA sequences,
thereby regulating gene transcription and expression, the potential for
mediating protein interactions is much larger compared to DNA binding.
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22. OLIGONUCLEOTIDE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS
✓ A non-transgenic base pair-specific precision gene editing
platform that has been significantly advanced through Rapid Trait
Development System (RTDS) to achieve novel and commercially
valuable traits in agriculturally important crops.
✓ The RTDS technology harnesses the cell's normal DNA repair
system to edit specific targeted bases within the genome through
the use of chemically synthesized oligonucleotides.
✓ These oligonucleotides are used as repair templates to generate
mismatches in the DNA at the target site.
✓ Through homology-directed pairing between the oligonucleotide
and the DNA of the target region, the cell's repair machinery is
directed to those sites to correct the mismatched base(s) guided
by the oligonucleotide sequence.
✓ Once the correction process is completed, the oligonucleotide is
degraded by the cell through natural processes.
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24. CISGENESIS, TRANSGENESIS AND INTRAGENESIS
Cisgenesis
✓ Transfer of genes
between crossable
species or the plant
itself
✓ New trait without
foreign gene
✓ No environmental risk
✓ free of markers and
any vector backbone
✓ ncludes the gene of
interest flanked by its
own promoter and
terminator,
Transgenesis
✓ Transfer of genes
between non-
crossable species or
the plant itself
✓ Recombinant DNA
✓ New trait with foreign
gene
✓ No environmental risk
Intragenesis
✓ free of markers and
any vector
backbone
✓ gene of interest can
be combined with
regulatory
elements from the
species itself or
from a cross
compatible species
28. ORGANOGENESIS
single tissue organ is developed into a completely new plant
Direct method (explants to shoots)
Indirect method explants to callus to shoots)
SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS
Tissues to embryo to plant