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Best Agriculture Project Nomination
Gold Medal
TOP 10
Best Wiki
Best Model
Best Plant Synthetic Biology
Best Presentation Nomination
Best Agriculture Project Nomination
Let's start the journey!

It's Flora Sentinel here, ready to share my journey and the incredible story of the crops I protect.

Crops
are absolutely vital for human life and civilization.
However, crop diseases have a significant impact on crop yields.
Plant diseases annually cause global crop yield losses of up to 30%.
CROP
DISEASES
LOSSES
30%
With factors such as global climate change, changes in farming practices, and monoculture planting, plant diseases are occurring more frequently, posing a serious threat to global and national food security.
Rice blast
Strawberry
powdery mildew
Potato
late blight
While chemical pesticides have been helpful in addressing these challenges they also bring along their fair share of problems including the development of resistance among pathogens.
TRADITIONAL
CHEMICAL
PESTICIDES
Residual in soil and water sources.

Pathogens may gradually develop resistance to drugs.

Toxic chemicals may pose a threat to the health of farmers and consumers.
This year, ZJU-China also focuses on this issue, trying to create a new biopesticide based on self-amplifying RNA and plant immunity. With their tireless efforts, Flora Sentinel was born!
Therefore, synthetic biologists are exploring the potential of using biopesticides to combat crop diseases.

Flora sentinel's functional part is a long stranded RNA, which can be translated into a modified version of immunoprotein, possessing efficient and targeted resistance against specific pathogens.

And inspired by the concept of RNA vaccines, it has equipped with a platform to move and multiply within plant tissue.

Flora

Sentinel

By utilizing Agrobacterium as an engineering bacteria, Flora Sentinel can be formulated into pesticide formulations, making it easy for farmers to use.
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To learn more about our:
human practice works
biological module design
model
project contributes to Plant Synthetic Biology
experimental validation results
software tools

We strongly believe that clean and effective biopesticides will be a major focus of future research.

We envision a future where more Flora Sentinels will protect fields under human guidance, ensuring flourishing crops and abundant harvests for the world.

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