Engineering Multiple Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Canola, Brassica napus

N Lohani, D Jain, MB Singh, PL Bhalla - Frontiers in plant science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Impacts of climate change like global warming, drought, flooding, and other extreme events
are posing severe challenges to global crop production. Contribution of Brassica napus …

Use of plant colonizing bacteria as chassis for transfer of N2-fixation to cereals

BA Geddes, MH Ryu, F Mus, AG Costas… - Current opinion in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•A global aim is to transfer N 2-fixation to cereals.•One approach is to transfer N 2-
fixation to bacteria that associate with cereals.•Synthetic biology enables controlled transfer …

Synthetic microbe-to-plant communication channels

A Boo, T Toth, Q Yu, A Pfotenhauer, BD Fields… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Plants and microbes communicate to collaborate to stop pests, scavenge nutrients, and
react to environmental change. Microbiota consisting of thousands of species interact with …

Engineering reduced evolutionary potential for synthetic biology

BA Renda, MJ Hammerling, JE Barrick - Molecular BioSystems, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of synthetic biology seeks to engineer reliable and predictable behaviors in
organisms from collections of standardized genetic parts. However, unlike other types of …

Engineering synthetic regulatory circuits in plants

TK Kassaw, AJ Donayre-Torres, MS Antunes, KJ Morey… - Plant Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Plant synthetic biology is a rapidly emerging field that aims to engineer genetic circuits to
function in plants with the same reliability and precision as electronic circuits. These circuits …

Translational cross talk in gene networks

WH Mather, J Hasty, LS Tsimring, RJ Williams - Biophysical journal, 2013 - cell.com
It has been shown experimentally that competition for limited translational resources by
upstream mRNAs can lead to an anticorrelation between protein counts. Here, we …

Synthetic genetic circuits in crop plants

O de Lange, E Klavins, J Nemhauser - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Genetic circuits have the potential to accelerate crop improvement.•Successful
genetic circuits are currently made from heterologous, composable parts.•Higher throughput …

Gene networks that compensate for crosstalk with crosstalk

IE Müller, JR Rubens, T Jun, D Graham… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Crosstalk is a major challenge to engineering sophisticated synthetic gene networks. A
common approach is to insulate signal-transduction pathways by minimizing molecular-level …

Engineering orthogonal synthetic timer circuits based on extracytoplasmic function σ factors

D Pinto, S Vecchione, H Wu, M Mauri… - Nucleic Acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The rational design of synthetic regulatory circuits critically hinges on the availability of
orthogonal and well-characterized building blocks. Here, we focus on extracytoplasmic …

Structural basis of design and engineering for advanced plant optogenetics

S Banerjee, D Mitra - Trends in plant science, 2020 - cell.com
In optogenetics, light-sensitive proteins are specifically expressed in target cells and light is
used to precisely control the activity of these proteins at high spatiotemporal resolution …