Plant Protein Engineering

Plant Metabolic Engineering

The advent of recombinant DNA technologies over the past 20–30 yr has resulted in an impressive emergence of metabolic engineering as a powerful complement to classical chemical synthesis for the production of specialized pharmaceuticals and industrial compounds. The simplicity and low cost of growing plants makes them ideal systems for metabolic engineering. Here, we intend to provide a perspe...

Plant Plastid Engineering

Genetic material in plants is distributed into nucleus, plastids and mitochondria. Plastid has a central role of carrying out photosynthesis in plant cells. Plastid transformation is becoming more popular and an alternative to nuclear gene transformation because of various advantages like high protein levels, the feasibility of expressing multiple proteins from polycistronic mRNAs, and gene con...

System Engineering, Plant Engineering and Functional Models

System Engineering, as defined in the IEEE 1220 [4], promotes a model-driven process for designing complex systems. This approach comprises three main activities: the requirement analysis, the definition of the functional architecture and the allocation to the design architecture; all of these together lead to the system architecture. The result is a system specification that defines subsystems...

Plant metabolic engineering.

Metabolic engineering is generally defined as the redirection of one or more enzymatic reactions to produce new compounds in an organism, improve the production of existing compounds, or mediate the degradation of compounds. In highlighting progress in plant metabolic engineering over the past 25 years, it is first important to stress that it is in fact quite a young science in plants. Our know...

Genetic engineering of plant chloroplasts