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Chestnut Genetic Modification Service

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As one of the important woody food species, chestnut has both ecological value and economic benefits. However, the chestnut industry's development is currently facing serious challenges, which constrain the improvement of its yield and quality. These challenges include drought stress, chestnut diseases, and other problems that lead to lower yields and poorer quality.

Lifeasible is a professional agricultural biotechnology company. We have a wealth of experience in chestnut research and services, especially for the chestnut gene genetic modification, which has overcome the many shortcomings of traditional breeding, and the cultivation of high-quality varieties of chestnut brings new hope.

What We Can Offer?

In the field of chestnut genetic modification, we provide a full range of professional biotechnology services and high-quality variety breeding support, focusing on the chestnut resistance enhancement, yield enhancement and disease prevention and control of several key directions, and is committed to the use of cutting-edge technology to help optimize the varieties of chestnut and the progress of the industry.

Chestnut Resistance Breeding

  • Enhanced drought tolerance. Based on the editing of flavonoid metabolic pathway genes, osmoregulation genes, and stomatal development regulation genes, combined with optimization of leaf anatomy to enhance water use efficiency.
  • Improved cold and salt tolerance. Through genetic engineering, exogenous cold resistance genes are introduced into chestnut embryos or healing tissues to produce transgenic chestnut trees with enhanced cold resistance. Overexpression of cold-responsive genes and ion-balancing genes can also expand chestnut planting areas.

Chestnut Yield Breeding

  • Regulation of female flower differentiation. Editing of gibberellin synthesis genes or cytokinin response factors to optimize the ratio of male to female flowers.
  • Efficient nutrient utilization. Overexpression of root phosphorus and potassium uptake genes and incorporation of soil microbial interactions.

In addition, we targeted improvements in target traits, including shortening of male inflorescences and increasing ovule survival, to regulate chestnut yield.

Chestnut Disease-Resistant Service

We targeted gene editing to knock out key receptor genes for chestnut blight pathogen infestation or to introduce resistance genes. Specific gene silencing strategies can also be designed to improve disease resistance in chestnut trees by screening for host targets of pathogen effector proteins.

Importance of Genetic Modification in Chestnut

  • Improve drought resistance. Through genetic modification, we introduce some key genes related to drought resistance into chestnuts, such as transcription factor genes or functional genes, to enhance the ability of chestnuts to tolerate drought stress and improve their survival rate and yield under a drought environment.
  • Enhancement of yield. Using genetic engineering technology, genes controlling yield-related traits such as size, shape, and number of chestnut fruits can be modified or regulated to improve the yield of chestnut.
  • Enhance disease resistance. Disease-resistant genes are introduced into chestnut so that chestnut can produce corresponding disease-resistant substances, inhibit the growth and infestation of pathogenic bacteria, reduce the occurrence of diseases, and thus reduce the yield loss caused by diseases.

Highlight Our Advanced Technology Platform

Gene editing platform Our gene editing platform has a high-precision editing system that supports single-base substitution, gene knockout, and large fragment insertion.
Genetic transformation system Somatic cell embryo regeneration technology. Based on the regulation of relevant transcription factors, the embryo development cycle can be significantly shortened.
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Adopting the Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain with high transformation efficiency, suitable for constructing stable genetic lines of chestnut.
Bioinformatics platform We have established an advanced bioinformatics platform to provide genome sequencing and annotation. In addition, we integrate transcriptome (RNA-seq), metabolome (LC-MS/MS), and epigenome (ChIP-seq) data to resolve trait regulatory networks.

Why Choose Us?

  • Technology leadership. We continuously optimize our technology system to provide advanced services for efficient regeneration and genetic transformation of chestnut somatic cell embryos.
  • Full-process service capability. We provide one-stop solutions for gene mining and vector construction, gene editing, and transgenic plant breeding.
  • Germplasm resource bank. We have a strong chestnut germplasm library to support rapid screening and functional verification of resistance genes.

Lifeasible is committed to providing strong technical support for the chestnut industry's development, helping customers solve the problems of chestnut resistance, yield, and disease, and jointly promoting the sustainable development of the chestnut industry. If you are interested in us, please feel free to contact us.

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