Jiehua Wang

TL;DR: The potential usefulness of the root-specific promoter for the exudation of recombinant phytases is demonstrated and a new perspective on the mobilization of phytate in soil to inorganic phosphates for plant uptake is offered.

TL;DR: To obtain further insight into β-carotene biosynthesis in two important economic plant species, Lycium barbarum and Gentiana lutea L., and to investigate and prioritize potential genetic engineering targets in the pathway, the effects of five carotenogenic genes from these two species were functionally analyzed in transgenic tobacco plants.

TL;DR: Yeast cells can be bioengineered to secrete lysozyme, which in turn conveniently mediate the encapsulation of yeast cells within silica, which may prove a novel way for cell immobilization through the combination of genetic approach and biomineralization.

TL;DR: Genomic PCR results and Southern blot hybridization analysis showed that transgenic soybean plants selected for resistance to kanamycin contained the phyA transgene, which indicated that engineering crop plants with a higher expression level of heterologous phytase could improve the degradation of phytate and potentially in turn mobilize more inorganic phosphate from phytte and thus reduce phosphate load on agricultural ecosystems.

TL;DR: Heterologously expressed a previously isolated Rhizopus arrhizus glucoamylase gene in S. cerevisiae host, and the RaGA transformed strains could utilize starch as energy source to produce ethanol up to a final concentration as 5%.