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Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volume 71, 2020

Engineering Synthetic Signaling in Plants

Abstract

Synthetic signaling is a branch of synthetic biology that aims to understand native genetic regulatory mechanisms and to use these insights to engineer interventions and devices that achieve specified design parameters. Applying synthetic signaling approaches to plants offers the promise of mitigating the worst effects of climate change and providing a means to engineer crops for entirely novel environments, such as those in space travel. The ability to engineer new traits using synthetic signaling methods will require standardized libraries of biological parts and methods to assemble them; the decoupling of complex processes into simpler subsystems; and mathematical models that can accelerate the design-build-test-learn cycle. The field of plant synthetic signaling is relatively new, but it is poised for rapid advancement. Translation from the laboratory to the field is likely to be slowed, however, by the lack of constructive dialogue between researchers and other stakeholders.

Keyword(s): biosensors, engineering plants, signal processing, synthetic biology
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Engineering Synthetic Signaling in Plants
Annual Review of Plant Biology 71, 767 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-081519-035852
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