Application 2 : Agriculture

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Mind Map on Application 2 : Agriculture, created by thivyah_saran on 29/01/2016.
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Application 2 : Agriculture
  1. 2. Improving animal health
    1. Transgenic technologies used to improve animal health
      1. by increasing resistance to diseases
      2. transgenic dairy cows expressing lysostaphin (an antimicrobial) in their milk
        1. greater resistance to the mastitis-causing bacteria S. aureus
      3. 3. Improving food quality or making novel food products
        1. milk with extra casein
          1. requires less processing to make into cheese
            1. have increased calcium levels
          2. 1. Environmental sustainability
            1. Transgenic cows offer one way of reducing the environmental impact
              1. by improving farming efficiencies
                1. by reducing pollution
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