Literature Review

As we all know, potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a globally important high-yield crop that produces nutrient-rich tubers. This non-grain crop is the third most important food crop, after wheat and rice (Patil et al.2017). One of the major threats to potato production is soft rot disease caused by Erwinia bacteria, which generally occur during cultivation, harvesting or transportation and storage of farm produce, resulting in considerable yield reduction, poor quality of produce, and economic loss. In Kenya, it causes up to 50% total crop loss (Onkendi and Moleleki 2014; Muturi et al.2018).

Project Design

The initial experience of the project was inspired by our collaborative team iBowu-China's cancer project last year and by the inspiration given to the group in a literature. All team members were involved in this work. LAB. Plasmid construction Meiyi Li, Haoyu Wang, Chang Yang, WU Taibo, Alfred Jan Wang Protein Extraction Meiyi Li, Haoyu Wang , Kevin Deng, Yuehao Wang, DingFeng Zhnag, Junfeng Lin, Yunbo Zhao Human Practice Literature Review: Meiyi Li，Haoyu Wang，Chang Yang，WU Taibo，Yuxuan Shen，Jiazhen Ren Interview： Kevin Deng，Meiyi Li，Jiazhen Ren，Junfeng Lin，Yunbo Zhao School lecture Meiyi Li，Haoyu Wang，Chang Yang，WU Taibo，Yuxuan Shen，Jiazhen Ren Art Design Jiazhen Ren，Meiyi Li，Haoyu Wang Wiki Construction Meiyi Li，Haoyu Wang，Junfeng Lin，Yunbo Zhao Acknowledgment Throughout the 11 months of preparation for iGEM, we encountered many difficulties and hardships, among which we would like to especially thank the iBowu-China team members, as well as several members of the CCIC, for providing us with a lot of help.

Experts

Our team had the pleasure of meeting with Dr. Flemming Bensenbacher on 5th July 2019. Dr. Bensenbacer is an academician of the Royal Danish academy of Sciences and President of Carlsberg Foundation. He shared his journey in scientific research with us and the problems he encountered and tackled. We presented our project to him and hosted an interview with questions relating to the application of synthetic biology. This opportunity was crucial to us as we gained from it a valuable depth of knowledge in the potential future pathways of our product development.