Synthetic biology of plant natural products: From pathway elucidation to engineered biosynthesis in plant cells

X Zhu, X Liu, T Liu, Y Wang, N Ahmed, Z Li… - Plant Communications, 2021 - cell.com
Plant natural products (PNPs) are the main sources of drugs, food additives, and new
biofuels and have become a hotspot in synthetic biology. In the past two decades, the …

Natural products from bryophytes: from basic biology to biotechnological applications

A Horn, A Pascal, I Lončarević… - Critical Reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Natural products from plants have served mankind in a wide range of applications, such as
medicines, perfumes, or flavoring agents. For this reason, synthesis, regulation and function …

Naturally abundant green moss for highly efficient solar thermal generation of clean water

M Khajevand, S Azizian… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Water and energy scarcity are the challenges for humankind in the coming years. Sun is the
largest source of energy available on the planet. Also, brackish seawater covers more than …

Nature-inspired Enzyme engineering and sustainable catalysis: biochemical clues from the world of plants and extremophiles

A Chatterjee, S Puri, PK Sharma, PR Deepa… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The use of enzymes to accelerate chemical reactions for the synthesis of industrially
important products is rapidly gaining popularity. Biocatalysis is an environment-friendly …

A feasible method of induced biological soil crust propagation through the inoculation of moss and addition of soil amendments in a Pb-Zn tailing pond

K Liao, Y Tao, Y Zeng, J Tu, S She, Y Fu, L Hou… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The stacking of tailings results in serious environmental pollution and plant growth difficulty.
However, moss and microorganisms can successfully colonize in tailings to form biological …

Biomonitoring atmospheric pollution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using mosses

G Gao, H Zeng, Q Zhou - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), as the main components of petroleum
hydrocarbons (PHCs), are carcinogenic organic pollutants that occur widely in the …

How plants grow under gravity conditions besides 1 g: perspectives from hypergravity and space experiments that employ bryophytes as a model organism

A Kume, H Kamachi, Y Onoda, YT Hanba… - Plant Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Plants have evolved and grown under the selection pressure of gravitational force at 1 g on
Earth. In response to this selection pressure, plants have acquired gravitropism to sense …

Range of correlations in the size distributions of plant proteins

MMF de Lima, GHS Nunes, UL Fulco… - … Physical Journal Plus, 2023 - epjplus.epj.org
We report a comparative analysis of protein length distributions for 23 plant species. The
protein lengths are measured in number of amino acids (aa). Data were extracted from the …

Current status and emerging frontiers in enzyme engineering: An industrial perspective

OG Ndochinwa, QY Wang, OC Amadi, TN Nwagu… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Protein engineering mechanisms can be an efficient approach to enhance the biochemical
properties of various biocatalysts. Immobilization of biocatalysts and the introduction of new …

Targeting lipid metabolism in plants for non-animal sources of nutraceuticals towards sustainable food production and scale up

S Puri, SK Mandal, A Srivastava, I Agrawal, PR Deepa - Food Bioscience, 2023 - Elsevier
With the growing demand for nutraceuticals, there is renewed interest in tapping different
resources, preferably from non-animal sources. This review discusses two major …