Genetic engineering and genome editing for improving nitrogen use efficiency in plants

VG Lebedev, AA Popova, KA Shestibratov - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Low nitrogen availability is one of the main limiting factors for plant growth and development,
and high doses of N fertilizers are necessary to achieve high yields in agriculture. However …

Control of tobacco-specific nitrosamines by the Bacillus siamensis: Strain isolation, genome sequencing, mechanism analysis and genetic engineering

X Dong, J Yu, C Ye, D Liu, D Zou, Z Han, Q Yu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nitrosamines are considered carcinogens that threaten human health and environment.
Especially, high contents of Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are generated during …

Variations in different preceding crops on the soil environment, bacterial community richness and diversity of tobacco-planting soil

M Liu, R Xue, D Wang, Y Hu, K Gu, L Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is a major cash crop, and soil quality played a significant
role in the yield and quality of tobacco. Most farmers cultivate tobacco in rotation with other …

Nitrate assimilation pathway is impacted in young tobacco plants overexpressing a constitutively active nitrate reductase or displaying a defective CLCNt2

L Bovet, J Battey, J Lu, N Sierro, RE Dewey… - BMC Plant …, 2024 - Springer
Background We have previously shown that the expression of a constitutively active nitrate
reductase variant and the suppression of CLCNt2 gene function (belonging to the chloride …

CLCNt2 mediates nitrate content in tobacco leaf, impacting the production of tobacco-specific nitrosamines in cured leaves

L Bovet, P Campanoni, J Lu, A Hilfiker… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Nitrate accumulation in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) leaf, particularly in the burley (BU)
type, is a reservoir for the generation of nitrosating agents responsible for the formation of …

Organic nitrogen fertilizer sources for field production of flue‐cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.)

SB Kulesza, NJ Manning, MC Vann… - Agronomy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite rapid expansion of organic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) production in the US,
limited research has been conducted comparing the numerous organic fertilizer sources …

Expression of a constitutively active nitrate reductase increases SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein production in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves that otherwise show traits of …

LP Hamel, MÈ Paré, F Poirier-Gravel, R Tardif… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The production of coronavirus disease 2019 vaccines can be achieved by transient
expression of the Spike (S) protein of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in …

Physiological and transcriptome analysis reveals the differences in nitrate content between lamina and midrib of flue-cured tobacco

Y Feng, Y Zhao, Y Li, J Zhou, Y Li, H Shi - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Nitrate is an important precursor of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) and a remarkable
difference in nitrate accumulation between lamina and midrib of flue-cured tobacco has long …