Plant synthetic biology innovations for biofuels and bioproducts

Y Yang, TA Chaffin, AH Ahkami, E Blumwald… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Plant-based biosynthesis of fuels, chemicals, and materials promotes environmental
sustainability, which includes decreases in greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution, and …

Plastid transformation: how does it work? Can it be applied to crops? What can it offer?

Y Yu, PC Yu, WJ Chang, K Yu, CS Lin - International Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In recent years, plant genetic engineering has advanced agriculture in terms of crop
improvement, stress and disease resistance, and pharmaceutical biosynthesis. Cells from …

Gene introduction approaches in chloroplast transformation and its applications

AU Kumar, APK Ling - Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 2021 - Springer
Background Chloroplast is a type of plastid that is believed to be originated from ancestral
cyanobacteria. Chloroplast besides being a major component for photosynthesis, also takes …

Medicinal plants domestication, cultivation, improvement, and alternative technologies for the production of high value therapeutics: an overview

KG Ramawat, J Arora - Medicinal plants: domestication, biotechnology …, 2021 - Springer
Medicinal plants are source of several valuable drugs known as natural products or
secondary metabolites. Only a handful of medicinal plants are cultivated while most of them …

[HTML][HTML] Plastid transformation: Advances and challenges for its implementation in agricultural crops

Q Rascón-Cruz, CD González-Barriga… - Electronic Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chloroplast biotechnology has emerged as a promissory platform for the development of
modified plants to express products aimed mainly at the pharmaceutical, agricultural, and …

Energetic considerations for engineering novel biochemistries in photosynthetic organisms

DD Strand, BJ Walker - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Humans have been harnessing biology to make valuable compounds for generations. From
beer and biofuels to pharmaceuticals, biology provides an efficient alternative to industrial …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing approach and toolbox in optimization of chloroplast genetic transformation technology

YX Liu, LI Fan, GAO Liang, ZL Tu, Z Fei… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Elsevier
Chloroplast is a discrete, highly structured, and semi-autonomous cellular organelle. The
small genome of chloroplast makes it an up-and-coming platform for synthetic biology. As a …

Targeting chloroplasts for plant molecular farming

K Saba, F Ijaz, MS Malik, N Batool, AG Lössl… - Tools & techniques of …, 2023 - Springer
Chloroplast transformation has emerged as a promising platform for the development of
modified transplastomic plants expressing many useful products including pharmaceutical …

Improving organoleptic and antioxidant properties by inhibition of novel miRstv_7 to target key genes of steviol glycosides biosynthetic pathway in Stevia rebaudiana …

K Ashrafi, S Iqrar, F Qamar, M Saifi, SN Quadri… - Plant Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Stevioside (5–10%) and rebaudioside-A (2–4%) are well-characterized diterpene
glycosides found in leaves of Stevia rebaudiana known to have natural sweetening …

Unraveling Medicinal Plant Chemical Diversity for Novel Drug Discovery Through Biotechnological Interventions

MZ Gul, MY Bhat, EP Ryan… - Omics Studies of …, 2023 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The plant kingdom is one of the earth's prime life-supporting systems. In addition to the
apparent nutritional benefits, the therapeutic attributes of plants have been established since …