ArticlePloS one2010
Autoluminescent plants.
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- Chloroplast Engineering: Fundamental Insights and Its Application in Amelioration of Environmental Stress.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Chemistry in Fungal Bioluminescence: Theoretical Studies on Biosynthesis of Luciferin from Caffeic Acid and Regeneration of Caffeic Acid from Oxidized Luciferin.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Cryo-EM structure of the fatty acid reductase LuxC-LuxE complex provides insights into bacterial bioluminescence.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2022Article
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- Augmenting the living plant mesophyll into a photonic capacitor.Science advances · 2021Article
- Enhanced brightness of bacterial luciferase by bioluminescence resonance energy transfer.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Green giant-a tiny chloroplast genome with mighty power to produce high-value proteins: history and phylogeny.Plant biotechnology journal · 2021Review
- Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence ofFrontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Terrestrial and marine bioluminescent organisms from the Indian subcontinent: a review.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2020Review
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Abstract
Prospects of obtaining plants glowing in the dark have captivated the imagination of scientists and layman alike. While light emission has been developed into a useful marker of gene expression, bioluminescence in plants remained dependent on externally supplied substrate. Evolutionary conservation of the prokaryotic gene expression machinery enabled expression of the six genes of the lux operon in chloroplasts yielding plants that are capable of autonomous light emission. This work demonstrates that complex metabolic pathways of prokaryotes can be reconstructed and function in plant chloroplasts and that transplastomic plants can emit light that is visible by naked eye.
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