Farhad Nazarian-Firouzabadi, Jianing Bai, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez
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Abstract
The discovery and manipulation of upstream open reading frames (uORFs) represent a promising frontier in plant biotechnology, offering strategies to enhance disease resistance and crop resilience. Here, we explore the role of uORFs in regulating gene expression under biotic stress and discuss approaches to engineer uORFs for sustainable agriculture and precision breeding.
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Trends in Biotechnology publishes reviews and perspectives on the applied biological sciences, focusing on useful science applied to, derived from, or inspired by living systems.
The major themes that TIBTECH is interested in include:
Bioprocessing (biochemical engineering, applied enzymology, industrial biotechnology, biofuels, metabolic engineering)
Omics (genome editing, single-cell technologies, bioinformatics, synthetic biology)
Materials and devices (bionanotechnology, biomaterials, diagnostics/imaging/detection, soft robotics, biosensors/bioelectronics)
Therapeutics (biofabrication, stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, antibodies and other protein drugs, drug delivery)
Agroenvironment (environmental engineering, bioremediation, genetically modified crops, sustainable development).