The global warming issues devastating the Earth's natural glory. To stop this green house gases various methods and techniques are being used. Among them will synthetic Biology help to fight against climate change?
Many of the world's largest agribusiness companies are part of the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture. Advocates of climate-smart agriculture in the public and private sectors are adopting the tools of synthetic biology ("SynBio"), which they consider the most recent revolutionary technology, ideal for combating change climate. A report from the ETC Group and the Heinrich Böll Foundation briefly reviews research related to agriculture that involves the bio-synthetic development of microorganisms and agricultural products in the name of climate change mitigation and adaptation . This includes state-of-the-art techniques to improve photosynthesis, regulate nitrogen fixation and increase resistance to environmental stress.
The report is available at: http://www.etcgroup.org/issues/synthetic-biology
Regards
Since the synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary subject involving various disciples of engineering, biology biotechnology, biophysics and many more... Hence application of output of research domains of each could certainly help fight respective effects of climate change including the mitigation and adaptations... Etc
About synthetic biology (SB)
Despite a rapid development since 2004, the SB still remains "confidential" on a national or international level, even within the academic community and especially for the general public. Not to mention the number of publications in scientific journals, always difficult to estimate, the number of researchers working directly and explicitly in this field is still low, not exceeding, at best, the thousand in the whole world. However, under the term biotechnology, systemic biology or genomics, many researches are similar to the SB, but without naming it. According to a commonly accepted terminology, the SB is an emerging field, that is to say a new discipline oscillating between fundamental research and applications, between molecular biology, systemic biology and modeling. Some scientists link it to the evolution of existing disciplines, others, on the other hand, make it a discipline in its own right, based in particular on the rupture it generates with respect to the existing one. The position of the US Presidential Bioethics Commission illustrates the difficulty of providing a precise and consensual definition of BS. On the one hand, she says, "BS is the name given to this emerging field of research, which combines elements of biology, engineering, genetics, chemistry and chemistry. computer. On the other, she notes, "BS is deeply rooted in molecular biology, a discipline that emerged decades ago with the discovery of DNA structure and composition. " At his hearing on May 28, 2010, by the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy, Jay Keasling called the SB a "fundamental science focused on application."
Regards
Dear. Bachir Sir, yes you are right, this field of systematic biology is remained confidential. Although it is the basic fundamental link between all the other subjects it still remained ignored. More focus is given on biotechnology and molecular biology. Like this synthetic biology, other basic biology which deals with plants identification that is taxonomy is also gets ignored due to other advances in subject.
Thank you Sir.
Yes, SB is a such integration where, we need to work with very basic science people. And if we want to work on synthetic biology first some institutional framework we need to design.
Dear Vaibhav Sir, will you please explain, what kind of institutional work will be required for the study. So that we can deal with this topic. Need your valuable guidance for the same.
Thank you.
First, the research plan inrelation to SB need to be prepare.
Core team first that s3cise the mandate of institutes.Get approval from concen ministry.
And such athorative body will work woth rigid platform.
It is possible if there is statutory provisions in the instiiutes.