In some fields planted with a new, genetically altered strain called Roundup Ready cotton, most of the bolls, from which the fiber is harvested, simply dropped away.
And they include the ability to defeat genetically altered strains of smallpox.
The development of genetically altered strains of smallpox was presumably conducted in the Institute under leadership of Dr. Sergei Netyosov in the mid-1990s according to Kenneth Alibek.
An experimental model of Hirano body formation has been reported, using a genetically altered strain of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum.
In the case of rabies, the new vaccine is made from a genetically altered strain of a common virus called vaccinia - a close but harmless relative of the smallpox virus.
Since D-xylose is mostly isolated from agricultural residues such as wood stocks then the genetically altered strains will need to be effective at metabolizing these less pure natural sources.
Donnie has Streptococcus pyogenes, but it's a genetically altered strain.
The mutations not only allow the altered strains to proliferate but also allow unaltered strains to grow with abandon.
Dr. Strobel had developed a genetically altered strain of a common bacteria, Pseudomonas syringae, that in laboratory tests protected elms from a fungus that causes Dutch elm disease.
AstraZeneca P.L.C., a giant pharmaceutical company, said today that it would sell a genetically altered strain of "golden rice" in the developed world and also help make the technology freely available to the world's poorest countries.