The Rise and Rise of Nicotiana benthamiana: A Plant for All Reasons

J Bally, H Jung, C Mortimer, F Naim… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
A decade ago, the value of Nicotiana benthamiana as a tool for plant molecular biologists
was beginning to be appreciated. Scientists were using it to study plant-microbe and protein …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced plant-based glycan engineering

L Montero-Morales, H Steinkellner - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
With respect to biomanufacturing, glycosylation is one of the most addressed post-
translational modifications, since it is well-known that the attachment of sugar residues …

CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated knockout of six glycosyltransferase genes in Nicotiana benthamiana for the production of recombinant proteins lacking β‐1,2‐xylose and …

J Jansing, M Sack, SM Augustine… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plants offer fast, flexible and easily scalable alternative platforms for the production of
pharmaceutical proteins, but differences between plant and mammalian N‐linked glycans …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-omic Nicotiana benthamiana resource for fundamental research and biotechnology

B Ranawaka, J An, MT Lorenc, H Jung, M Sulli… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Nicotiana benthamiana is an invaluable model plant and biotechnology platform with a~ 3
Gb allotetraploid genome. To further improve its usefulness and versatility, we have …

A persistent major mutation in canonical jasmonate signaling is embedded in an herbivory-elicited gene network

R Ray, R Halitschke, K Gase… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
When insect herbivores attack plants, elicitors from oral secretions and regurgitants (OS)
enter wounds during feeding, eliciting defense responses. These generally require plant …

[HTML][HTML] Colour bio-factories: Towards scale-up production of anthocyanins in plant cell cultures

I Appelhagen, AK Wulff-Vester, M Wendell… - Metabolic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Anthocyanins are widely distributed, glycosylated, water-soluble plant pigments, which give
many fruits and flowers their red, purple or blue colouration. Their beneficial effects in a …

Using Synthetic Biology to Understand the Function of Plant Specialized Metabolites

Y Bai, X Liu, IT Baldwin - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Plant specialized metabolites (PSMs) are variably distributed across taxa, tissues, and
ecological contexts; this variability has inspired many theories about PSM function, which to …

Transient protein expression systems in plants and their applications

S Nosaki, K Hoshikawa, H Ezura, K Miura - Plant Biotechnology, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The production of recombinant proteins is important in academic research to identify protein
functions. Moreover, recombinant enzymes are used in the food and chemical industries …

The plant siRNA landscape

H Vaucheret, O Voinnet - The Plant Cell, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Whereas micro (mi) RNAs are considered the clean, noble side of the small RNA world,
small interfering (si) RNAs are often seen as a noisy set of molecules whose barbarian …

Luciferase complementation assay for protein‐protein interactions in plants

Z Zhou, G Bi, JM Zhou - Current Protocols in Plant Biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Constitutive and dynamic protein‐protein interactions are fundamental to all aspects of
cellular processes. Compared to other techniques measuring protein‐protein interactions in …