{"id":13492,"date":"2003-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20030625-05n"},"modified":"2003-06-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-24T22:00:00","slug":"nontransgenic-approach-to-ricin-free-castor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/nontransgenic-approach-to-ricin-free-castor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nontransgenic approach to ricin-free castor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arcadia Biosciences (Arizona, USA) and Anawah Inc (Washington, USA) are working together on developing ricin-free castor bean varieties via nontransgenic route. Arcadia\u2019s objectives is to turn off the genes responsible for ricin production in castor through mutagenesis. <\/p>\n<p>The mutated plants is subjected to a high speed screening methods known as TILLING. Through traditional breeding methods, specific mutants are then crossed with castor varieties containing other desirable traits and developed into ricin-free castor varieties and hybrids. <\/p>\n<p>The 1st commercial production of ricin-free castor could occur as early as 2006. In addition to ricin-free castor, Arcadia hopes to develop varieties with reduced levels of allergens, higher oil, higher ricinoleic acid, and improved agronomics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcadia Biosciences (Arizona, USA) and Anawah Inc (Washington, USA) are working together on developing ricin-free castor bean varieties via nontransgenic route. Arcadia&rsquo;s objectives is to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13492"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}