Here's a photo of a nicotiana rustica plant that has been transformed with agrobacterium to express the reporter UBQ:RUBY. RUBY converts tyrosine to red betalain, easily visible without any UV light or other special equipment or procedures.
The nicotiana rustica plant was transformed at CCL by participants in a plant molecular biology workgroup/
project GRFT is also working with UBQ:RUBY in transforming rice.
photo by Ian C.
Do you know that you can make a tax deductible donation to project GRFT and
receive a thank you gift?
Project GRFT is a non-profit dedicated to promoting
public health.
How can a viral outbreak be prevented from becoming a pandemic? That is a question that project GRFT is addressing. We now have very good vaccines to protect against covid-19 infections. Yet we are still faced with a continual pandemic. In developing countries of the world only 2% of the population have been vaccinated. Part of the solution to this problem lies in developing antivirals that prevent viral infections. We have found compelling evidence of such an antiviral in griffithsin, or GRFT. The purpose of our project is to biomanufacture raw materials, which contain GRFT, worldwide and at low cost. Project GRFT’s wonderful volunteer crew has been hard at work on developing this in labs operating on almost no budget.
Our ongoing fundraising efforts help in keeping the project supplied with equipment, materials, reagents and services sourced from commercial labs.
We ask for your contribution to help keep the work
going and to increase the possibility of preventing future viral outbreaks from
exploding into pandemics.
To show our appreciation project GRFT has gifts from
the garden of Trichocereus Rex for all donors to the project.
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Please include with your donation your mailing
address and other contact information.
You will receive a botanical gift, seeds of Trichocereus
species cacti.
Try growing your own cacti from seed. The fresh seeds are from carefully hand
pollinated flowers.
Trichocereus have been treasured for thousands of
years in South America.
They thrive in the climate of the SF Bay Area.
They can grow 15 feet tall and bloom with large
fragrant white flowers.
Please make your donation here
Questions or comments welcome here: nenufarmoleculesforlife@gmail.com
