Genetic engineering of plants is at the core of sustainability efforts,natural product synthesis,and agricultural crop improvement.The past several decades have brought remarkable progress in biotechnology with the im...Genetic engineering of plants is at the core of sustainability efforts,natural product synthesis,and agricultural crop improvement.The past several decades have brought remarkable progress in biotechnology with the improvement of genome editing and sequencing tools,which stand to advance plant synthetic biology and bioengineering.In agriculture,genetic engineering can be employed to create crops that have in creased yields and nu tritio nal value,are resista nt to herbicides,in sects,diseases,and abiotic stresses,in cludi ng drought and heat .In pharmaceuticals and therapeutics,genetically engineered plants can be used to synthesize valuable small-molecule drugs and recombinant proteins.展开更多
文摘Genetic engineering of plants is at the core of sustainability efforts,natural product synthesis,and agricultural crop improvement.The past several decades have brought remarkable progress in biotechnology with the improvement of genome editing and sequencing tools,which stand to advance plant synthetic biology and bioengineering.In agriculture,genetic engineering can be employed to create crops that have in creased yields and nu tritio nal value,are resista nt to herbicides,in sects,diseases,and abiotic stresses,in cludi ng drought and heat .In pharmaceuticals and therapeutics,genetically engineered plants can be used to synthesize valuable small-molecule drugs and recombinant proteins.