Genetic Engineering Research Institute Korea

Last week met with a friend who had praised the efforts put by KRIBB in the field of Genetic Engineering. I can’t believe the facts he presented in front of me. Can you tell me it is right?

Yes Sir!
You have heard right. Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) is the only government research institute established in the year 1985.

It conducts genetic engineering program under the department:

Plant system engineering research centre:

Under this department several researches are being done, Of which the important topics are:


Metabolic engineering of pigment antioxidants in transgenic plants
Development of an environmentally-friendly binary vector system
Plant genome structural, functional and evolutionary genomics
Functional genomics of plant-microbe interactions
Signal transduction network of plant cell death
CyanoCrop using cyanobacterial genes
Post-translational mechanism under stress

Till date Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) has bagged many achievements in the field of genetic engineering including:
Achievements of KRIBB in genetic engineering:

Development of transgenic sweetpotato with enhanced pigment antioxidants

International collaboration on the analysis of the Solanaceae genome.

Development of platform technology for research on functional genomics

Development of transplastomic technology

Development of an edible plant-derived vaccine for Alzheimer's disease

Development of genomics assisted breeding tools

Development of algal biotechnology

Development of stress tolerant crop