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Observing ,understanding and discussing
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Past few days we all are curious about the Article on First known horizontal gene transfer between Whitefly and Plant.
What was the context of that !?
On 13/10/2022 Chatshaala discussion was about the identification of Phyllanthus plants .Ichha @Ichha found some phyllanthus plants in her surrounding she planned to identify those plants .
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On 14/10/2022 Ichha posted the updates of the phyllanthus plants for identification .
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First and foremost @Arunan sir noticed some infections on that* & ask for more pictures .
Later @Himanshu sir noticed the infections indicated* by Arunan sir and search for that ,He got the news article about the first horizontal known gene transfer Whitefly & plant.
Iater i searched the key words about how the horizontal gene transfer occured between whitefly and plant
I got the original paper
i wrote that in the heading “Attack your shield with your spear”
Actually i got these quotes from the original paper .
Rakesh bivas found the original story behind the words .
The story as follows
In the state of chu, there was a craftsman who made shields and spears and sold them in a market.
One day, in the market, to attract more attentions, he boasted of his shield:
"My shield is so solid that no spears can pierce it.” As he expected, hearing his words, people in the market gathered around his booth.
He continued his bragging: “My spear is so strong that it can pierce through anything.”
While he was proudly advertising his products, a man in the crowd asked him “what if I stab your shield with your spear?”
Bewildered by his own words, the craftsman was at a loss for a suitable reply. The crowd broke up laughing and booing"
Like here Whitefly taken the Spear PMaT1 gene from plant and detoxify the Plant toxin .
All those made us more more interesting .
I give this *chance to congratulate @Ichha for her continues follow up discussion on context to curriculum & chatshala.Without her observation these chain of discussion will not happen.
On 21/10/2022 * @jaikishan sent a reference about RNAi* ,that was the history about RNAi .the first paper also explained about the RNAi.Currently we are standing on that RNAi
I respect Chitra mam for her patience ,because my understanding that i made had some gaps with the original concept .I tried to fill up those gap with the help of mam.still continuing .
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Because of the continues search related to this topic my Google feeds now filled insect plant interaction.
On 27/10/2022 i got the other reference that was about the continuation of first article
Actually i really surprised about that how the researchers are getting these updates very quickly !!!
The first paper published on 1/04/2021 ,the second paper related to first paper published on 26/10/2022 I got the second paper on 27/10/2022
How researchers are immediately follow up this !!!
I shared my surprize to chatshala ,later i realised that a if a researcher doing a work ,he/She continuously acquiring knowledge about the topic .
In our case we came there because of the observation made by Ichha.Also we are connecting this with various curriculum topics .
Yes.That was the Simple but humble observation made by Ichha on her home lab ,that is Whitefly infecting phyllanthus leaves .
Now Cubists are in the way of understanding the RNAi mechanism that elaborated in that paper .
I hope the coming discussions are related to that and we all learn more about that .
Context to Curriculum :
A) Gene transfer
1)Vertical Gene transfer
Parent to offspring
2)Horizontal Gene transfer
Transformation
Transduction
Conjugation
Protein synthesis
Transcription
Translation
Enzyme /protein
B) Symbiotic relation with
Whitefly and Ant
Production of Honey dew by Whitefly.
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C) Gene sequencing
Electrophoresis
Northern blotting
D) Mutation
Creating mutant by using mutagens .
E) Identification of Phyllanthus .
F) RNAi.
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G)Lifecycle of Whitefly
