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For over a millennium, saffron has stood as the most expensive spice in the world, mostly due to the incredible amount of work required to extract the spice from the crocus flower. | For over a millennium, saffron has stood as the most expensive spice in the world, mostly due to the incredible amount of work required to extract the spice from the crocus flower. | ||
| - | Our iGEM team aims to produce saffron in the | + | Our iGEM team aims to produce saffron in the bacterium <i>E. coli</i>, in order to create an inexpensive alternative to the current method of manufacturing the spice. This project, named Saffron in a Kan, will seek to first express the genes necessary for the three main components of saffron - picrocin, crocin, and safranal - and then to optimize the output of these three components. |
| - | <br>A secondary goal for our team is to produce the above components in <i> | + | <br>A secondary goal for our team is to produce the above components in <i>Synechocystis</i>, a cyanobacterium, as well, to see if our biobrick can be used in more than one bacterium as well as to compare yield. |
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