Engineered Chloroplast Genome Just Got Smarter

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biofuels
biopharmaceuticals
molecular farming
metabolic engineering
biotic/abiotic stress tolerance
retrograde signaling
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Jin, Shuangxia
Daniell, Henry
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Chloroplasts are known to sustain life on earth by providing food, fuel and oxygen through the process of photosynthesis. However, the chloroplast genome has also been smartly engineered to confer valuable agronomic traits and/or serve as bioreactors for production of industrial enzymes, biopharmaceuticals, bio-products or vaccines. The recent breakthrough in hyper-expression of biopharmaceuticals in edible leaves has facilitated the advancement to clinical studies by major pharmaceutical companies. This review critically evaluates progress in developing new tools to enhance or simplify expression of targeted genes in chloroplasts. These tools hold the promise to further the development of novel fuels and products, enhance the photosynthetic process, and increase our understanding of retrograde signaling and cellular processes.

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2015-10-01
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Trends in Plant Science
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