{"id":31705,"date":"2016-11-05T10:01:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/darpa-aims-to-create-armies-of-insect-allies-to-protect-crops-worldwide"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:24:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:24:54","slug":"darpa-aims-to-create-armies-of-insect-allies-to-protect-crops-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/darpa-aims-to-create-armies-of-insect-allies-to-protect-crops-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Aims to Create Armies of \u2018Insect Allies\u2019 to Protect Crops Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-aims-to-create-armies-of-insect-allies-to-protect-crops-worldwide.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new DARPA program is poised to provide an alternative to traditional agricultural threat response, using targeted gene therapy to protect mature plants within a single growing season.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA proposes to use a natural and very efficient two-step delivery system to transfer modified genes to plants; insect vectors and the plant viruses they transmit.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, DARPA aims to transform certain insect pests into \u201cInsect Allies,\u201d the name of the new program.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinatopix.com\/articles\/105225\/20161103\/darpa-aims-create-armies-insect-allies-protect-crops-worldwide.htm\">http:\/\/www.chinatopix.com\/articles\/105225\/20161103\/darpa-aim...ldwide.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new DARPA program is poised to provide an alternative to traditional agricultural threat response, using targeted gene therapy to protect mature plants within a single growing season. DARPA proposes to use a natural and very efficient two-step delivery system to transfer modified genes to plants; insect vectors and the plant viruses they transmit. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31705","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=31705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49638,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31705\/revisions\/49638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}