{"id":28104,"date":"2016-07-20T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/musings-on-synthetic-biology-and-crop-disease-resistance"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:32:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:32:27","slug":"musings-on-synthetic-biology-and-crop-disease-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/musings-on-synthetic-biology-and-crop-disease-resistance","title":{"rendered":"Musings on Synthetic Biology and Crop Disease Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/musings-on-synthetic-biology-and-crop-disease-resistance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why Plants? Part III \u2013 Rise of The Plant Machines by Orlando de Lange.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone talks about the rise of the robots. What about the rise of the \u201cVegetation\/ Plant Machines?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>In part 3 of our series on plant synthetic biology, Orlando de Lange (<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeaGreenODL\">@SeaGreenODL<\/a>) of <a href=\"https:\/\/newleafsynbio.wordpress.com\/\">The New Leaf<\/a> blog introduces how synbio approaches are being used to develop novel disease resistant crops, overcoming some of the challenges faced by monoculture farming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The King\u2019s man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1970 an unassuming American man with greying hair and large spectacles stood before the King of Norway and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This prize of international renown is set aside for individuals who have made the greatest possible contribution to peace among nations. Who was the king\u2019s man in 1970? A president, a diplomat, a great writer, perhaps? No, he was crop scientist and plant breeder Norman Borlaug, founding father of the Green Revolution.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/synbio\/2016\/07\/19\/rise-of-the-plant-machines-by-orlando-de-lange\/\">http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/synbio\/2016\/07\/19\/rise-of-the-plant-ma...-de-lange\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Plants? Part III \u2013 Rise of The Plant Machines by Orlando de Lange. Everyone talks about the rise of the robots. What about the rise of the \u201cVegetation\/ Plant Machines?\u201d In part 3 of our series on plant synthetic biology, Orlando de Lange (@SeaGreenODL) of The New Leaf blog introduces how synbio approaches are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66842,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28104\/revisions\/66842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}