Phytocannabinoids: origins and biosynthesis

T Gülck, BL Møller - Trends in plant science, 2020 - cell.com
Phytocannabinoids are bioactive natural products found in some flowering plants, liverworts,
and fungi that can be beneficial for the treatment of human ailments such as pain, anxiety …

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 …

Chloroplast-selective gene delivery and expression in planta using chitosan-complexed single-walled carbon nanotube carriers

SY Kwak, TTS Lew, CJ Sweeney, VB Koman… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Plant genetic engineering is an important tool used in current efforts in crop improvement,
pharmaceutical product biosynthesis and sustainable agriculture. However, conventional …

Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture

Z Tian, JW Wang, J Li, B Han - The Plant Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Crop production is facing unprecedented challenges. Despite the fact that the food supply
has significantly increased over the past half‐century,~ 8.9 and 14.3% people are still …

Targeted base editing in the plastid genome of Arabidopsis thaliana

I Nakazato, M Okuno, H Yamamoto, Y Tamura, T Itoh… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
Bacterial cytidine deaminase fused to the DNA binding domains of transcription activator-
like effector nucleases was recently reported to transiently substitute a targeted C to a T in …

Application of genetics and biotechnology for improving medicinal plants

M Niazian - Planta, 2019 - Springer
Main conclusion Plant tissue culture has been used for conservation, micropropagation, and
in planta overproduction of some pharma molecules of medicinal plants. New biotechnology …

Biotechnological advances to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crops

MA Villalobos-López, A Arroyo-Becerra… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The major challenges that agriculture is facing in the twenty-first century are increasing
droughts, water scarcity, flooding, poorer soils, and extreme temperatures due to climate …

Contributions of the international plant science community to the fight against human infectious diseases–part 1: epidemic and pandemic diseases

M Lobato Gomez, X Huang, D Alvarez… - Plant biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible or communicable diseases, are caused by
pathogens or parasites that spread in communities by direct contact with infected individuals …

Targeted gene disruption of ATP synthases 6‐1 and 6‐2 in the mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana by mitoTALENs

S Arimura, H Ayabe, H Sugaya, M Okuno… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We recently achieved targeted disruptions of cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS)‐associated
genes in the mitochondrial genomes of rice and rapeseed by using mitochondria‐targeted …

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 …