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In recent years, plant biotechnology has almost reached maturity. Transgenic plants
engineered to be herbicide-or insect-resistant are outcompeting conventional crop plants …

Over the last three decades, the expression of recombinant proteins in plants and plant cells
has been promoted as an alternative cost-effective production platform. However, the market …

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 …

With the new knowledge generated through the Human Genome Project and related
biomedical research comes a potential revolution in drug development strategies. One of the …

Molecular genetic studies of model plants in the past few decades have identified many key
genes and pathways controlling development, metabolism and environmental responses …

In many economically important plant species, the chemical composition of one or more non-
protein compounds determines the value of the plant and may have an important role in …

Recombinant proteins play an important role in many areas of our lives. For example,
recombinant enzymes are used in the food and chemical industries and as high-quality …

Plants are a promising expression system for the production of heterologous proteins,
especially therapeutic proteins. Currently the majority of therapeutic proteins are produced …

Highlights•New toolkits allow increased precision and control over gene expression in
planta.•The workflow of synthetic biology includes the phases of design, build, and …