ATR
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Agricultural Techniques & Research On Preventive Agrodiagnostics
Bridging the gap between diagnostics and conservation
description
Atropa concerns the utilization of
LRR domain containing proteins for agricultural
diagnostics. We acquired the LRR domain of the Sw-5b resistance gene
of Solanum peruvianum and fused it with the Fc domain of an IgG1 protein
with a linker to assure correct folding of all partners. The utility
of this chimera was tested with the Yeast-two-Hybrid method and as a
bait we used the movement protein of Tomato spotted wilt virus (NSm:YFP)
fused with YFP.
the problems
Crops are being destroyed
By harmful pathogens such as TSWV
01
TSWV spreads fast
Many pathogens easily cross the wildlife/crop barrier
02
Pathogens resort to the wild
Wildlife habitats become pathogen incubators
03
Biodiversity is at risk
Crop pathogens become perilous for wild ecosystems
04
implementation
Paving the appropriate way to implement your idea in the real world
can be an arduous yet rewarding task. From building our actual test
kit, to exploring the ways we can conserve the environment, whilst
tackling the food crisis, our team this year went above and beyond
to deliver a complete tool with immense future possibilities. Today
the battle is fought against
TSWV, tomorrow it may as well be
against every plant pathogen there is.
Inspiration
“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen
Keller . We based our choice of project in a set of values that
characterize our team as a whole. It is a common secret that humanity
has devastated and trivialized the environment unprecedentedly.
Thoughout our project we prioritized the environment and tried to
protect it in many aspects.