Month: April 2021

Sanatec Seeds, a venture spin-out of the Japan’s University of Tsukuba, is the first company in the world to commercialize genome-edited tomatoes, “Sicilian Rouge High GABA” “Sicilian Rouge High GABA” is a strain (variety registration pending) that contains four to five times more gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA), an antihypertensive, than its parent strain, Sicilian Rouge […]

The team of Yutaro MORI at RIKEN, in collaboration with Yokohama Rubber and ZEON Co., has developed a technology to produce 1,3-butadiene from glucose by recombinant Escherichia coli. Butadiene is currently produced at 12 million t/y worldwide and over 1 million t/y in Japan from petrochemical resources. The recombinant Escherichia coli strain used in this […]