Possible to genetically engineer plants using genetic material from Deinococcus radiodurans?

Question

Would it be possible to isolate and use the beneficial genes from this organism to engineer plants (food) that take on the beneficial traits of being heat/vaccuum/radioactive/cold resistance for possible use to grow in otherwise unhospitable environments? Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes. This is what people has been doing all the time. In fact, using this concept, people have been growing crops that tastes good by extracting out the gene for it and then genetically inserted them in.