Roots of synthetic ecology: microbes that foster plant resilience in the changing climate

E Kozaeva, AA Eida, EF Gunady, JL Dangl… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
HighlightsInfluences of abiotic stresses on assembly and function of rhizo-microbiomeHow
ecology shapes plant and microbial stress resilienceExamples in which microbial abiotic …

Engineering plant–microbe communication for plant nutrient use efficiency

C Griffin, MT Oz, GS Demirer - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Microbes facilitate plant nutrient acquisition and improve nutrient use
efficiency.•Plants control rhizosphere microbiome assembly and behavior through root …

Phytosensors: harnessing plants to understand the world around us

AC Pfotenhauer, SC Lenaghan - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Review of the state of the art approaches for current phytosensor
designs.•Analysis of the future design space for phytosensors.•Comparison of strengths and …

Engineering plant biosensors: recent advances in design and applications

O Castaneda-Méndez, S Akter, J Beltrán - Current Opinion in …, 2025 - Elsevier
Highlights•The development of synthetic plant biosensors is progressing in model
plants.•More orthogonal protein scaffolds are needed to detect structurally diverse …

Synthetic reprogramming of plant developmental and biochemical pathways

S Akter, O Castaneda-Méndez, J Beltrán - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Several challenges remain for the widespread use of synthetic biology in
crops.•Synthetic gene expression circuitry is advancing in model plants.•Rapid enzyme …

An Optimized Version of the Small Synthetic Genome (Mini-Synplastome) for Plastid Metabolic Engineering in Solanum tuberosum (Potato)

A Occhialini, G King, M Majdi… - ACS Synthetic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Plastids represent promising targets in plant genetic engineering for many biotech
applications, ranging from their use as bioreactors for the overproduction of valuable …

Kinetic study on the degradation of Acid Red 88 azo dye in a constructed wetland-microbial fuel cell inoculated with Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

M Esmaelzadeh, N Fallah, F Vahabzadeh - Environmental Science and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Removal of Acid Red 88 (AR88) as an azo dye from the synthetic type of
wastewater was studied in a laboratory-made constructed wetland microbial fuel cell (CW …

drSMALL: Database for disease resistance-shaping small molecules derived from the plant microbiome

R Cheng, T Ke, F Gui, J Li, X Zhang, JI Vílchez… - Crop Health, 2025 - Springer
Recent evidence highlights the potential of the plant microbiota to increase host plant
disease resistance through the production of bioactive small molecules. However, the …

CRAGE-RB-PI-seq enables transcriptional profiling of rhizobacteria during plant-root colonization

T Honda, S Yu, D Mai, L Baumgart, G Babnigg… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Plant roots release a wide array of metabolites into the rhizosphere, shaping microbial
communities and their functions. While metagenomics has expanded our understanding of …

Dynamics of genetic circuits in Pseudomonas protegens

J Rico, P Japon, LM Rubio, A Goni-Moreno - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The engineering of genetic circuits to perform predefined computations is central to synthetic
biology, enabling living cells with new functionalities applicable across various domains …