Biocontainment Strategy for Controlling Engineered Microalgae (IMAGE)

Hiroshima University

Biocontainment Strategy for Controlling Engineered Microalgae

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Biocontainment strategies seek to stop outgrowth of GMOs in a specific area, like outside of the lab environment. Hirota was particularly interested in "a passive strategy," the aim of which is to alter a microbe's nutrient requirements. By engineering a microbe to depend on a certain nutrient that does not exist outside of its home environment, then it will not survive if it escapes this environment. In his case, the microbe is microalgae, and the nutrient is phosphite.

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Ryuichi Hirota, Hiroshima University

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