{"title":"Synthetic biology in plants.","authors":"Takahiko Hayakawa, Hayato Suzuki, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Nobutaka Mitsuda","doi":"10.5511/plantbiotechnology.24.0630b","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Synthetic biology, an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of engineering and biology, has garnered considerable attention for its potential applications in plant science. By exploiting engineering principles, synthetic biology enables the redesign and construction of biological systems to manipulate plant traits, metabolic pathways, and responses to environmental stressors. This review explores the evolution and current state of synthetic biology in plants, highlighting key achievements and emerging trends. Synthetic biology offers innovative solutions to longstanding challenges in agriculture and biotechnology for improvement of nutrition and photosynthetic efficiency, useful secondary metabolite production, engineering biosensors, and conferring stress tolerance. Recent advances, such as genome editing technologies, have facilitated precise manipulation of plant genomes, creating new possibilities for crop improvement and sustainable agriculture. Despite its transformative potential, ethical and biosafety considerations underscore the need for responsible deployment of synthetic biology tools in plant research and development. This review provides insights into the burgeoning field of plant synthetic biology, offering a glimpse into its future implications for food security, environmental sustainability, and human health.</p>","PeriodicalId":20411,"journal":{"name":"Plant Biotechnology","volume":"41 3","pages":"173-193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11921130/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Plant Biotechnology","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5511/plantbiotechnology.24.0630b","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Synthetic biology, an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of engineering and biology, has garnered considerable attention for its potential applications in plant science. By exploiting engineering principles, synthetic biology enables the redesign and construction of biological systems to manipulate plant traits, metabolic pathways, and responses to environmental stressors. This review explores the evolution and current state of synthetic biology in plants, highlighting key achievements and emerging trends. Synthetic biology offers innovative solutions to longstanding challenges in agriculture and biotechnology for improvement of nutrition and photosynthetic efficiency, useful secondary metabolite production, engineering biosensors, and conferring stress tolerance. Recent advances, such as genome editing technologies, have facilitated precise manipulation of plant genomes, creating new possibilities for crop improvement and sustainable agriculture. Despite its transformative potential, ethical and biosafety considerations underscore the need for responsible deployment of synthetic biology tools in plant research and development. This review provides insights into the burgeoning field of plant synthetic biology, offering a glimpse into its future implications for food security, environmental sustainability, and human health.
期刊介绍:
Plant Biotechnology is an international, open-access, and online journal, published every three months by the Japanese Society for Plant Biotechnology. The journal, first published in 1984 as the predecessor journal, “Plant Tissue Culture Letters” and became its present form in 1997 when the society name was renamed to Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, publishes findings in the areas from basic- to application research of plant biotechnology. The aim of Plant Biotechnology is to publish original and high-impact papers, in the most rapid turnaround time for reviewing, on the plant biotechnology including tissue culture, production of specialized metabolites, transgenic technology, and genome editing technology, and also on the related research fields including molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, plant breeding, plant physiology and biochemistry, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and bioinformatics.