What are Plant Enabling Technologies?

Plant Molecular Enabling Technologies provide critical tools for plant transformation.  We are packaging as many as possible together in a single BiOS (Biological Open Source) license so that bureaucracy and confusion between multiple agreements is minimal. 

One of these is GUSPlus^TM, a GUS gene that has improved capabilities over the E.coli gusA gene, which was released to the world under terms broadly similar to those envisioned for BiOS and BioForge.

Another example is the TransBacter^TM technology, developed to bypass critical restrictions on gene transfer by Agrobacterium.

Other technologies that we would like to encourage to be added to the Plant Molecular Enabling Technologies BiOS (Biological Open Source) license are gene down-regulation technologies, transcriptional control of gene activity, and control of recombination sites.

Adding a technology to a BiOS license does not change the ownership!  That remains with the original owner, which may be a university, a company, or a non-profit.  What the BiOS license confers is the mutually protected capability to use the technology, and to leverage this capability by having the improvements shared within a defined user community.