Our Project

How wonderful is it if you can see flowers in full glory in any season? Flowers are beautiful and fruits are delicious. If flowers bloom whenever you like, you could eat tasty fruits and see beautiful flowers in any time. It is what we humans have been looking for that the technology to make flowers bloom. And this is the technology that is going to be implemented by iGEM Kyoto.
We will create Flower Fairy E.coli. This will make Florigen and introduce it into plants! This enables us to make flowers bloom on demand!
When we wish to achieve our goal, there are several hurdles. First, needless to say, we must make Escherichia.coli express Florigen that functions correctly. Second, we must make secretion system without cell death because Flower Fairy E.coli have to secrete florigen constantly when they are injected into plant and switched on. Third, Florigen which is secreted must be introduced into plant cells without any damege.