Many efforts have been put into engineering plants to improve crop yields and stress
tolerance and boost the bioproduction of valuable molecules. Yet, our capabilities are still …

Protoplasts, which are plant cells with their cell walls removed, have been used for decades
in plant research and have been instrumental in genetic transformation and the study of …

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 …

Over the past years, plant hypoxia research has produced a considerable number of new
resources to monitor low oxygen responses in model species, mainly Arabidopsis thaliana …

Abiotic stresses can cause significant damage to plants. For sustainable bioenergy crop
production, it is critical to generate resistant crops to such stress. Engineering promoters to …

Plastids represent promising targets in plant genetic engineering for many biotech
applications, ranging from their use as bioreactors for the overproduction of valuable …

Human interferon (hINF) alpha 2b is clinically important pharmaceutical product included in
combinatory therapy against chronic hepatitis C and B and complex therapy against several …

Key message A high-efficiency protoplast transient system was devised to screen genome
editing elements in Salvia miltiorrhiza. Abstract Medicinal plants with high-value …

Key message A novel plant binary expression system was developed from the compactin
biosynthetic pathway 27 of Penicillium citrinum ML-236B. The system achieved> fivefold …

Plastids are membrane-bound organelles that assume a wide range of essential functions in
the plant kingdom, ranging from photosynthesis to coordinating with other compartments in …