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ArticleCurrent opinion in plant biology2014

Transient expressions of synthetic biology in plants.

Frank Sainsbury, George P Lomonossoff

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Article in Current opinion in plant biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Unlocking saponin biosynthesis in soapwort.Nature chemical biology · 2025
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  15. Production of Genistein inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  18. Demystifying the momilactone pathway.Nature chemical biology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Frank SainsburyThe University of Queensland, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Centre for Biomolecular Engineering, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
George P LomonossoffDepartment of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom. Electronic address: george.lomonossoff@jic.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J004596/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L014130/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/00000166
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent developments in transient expression methods have enabled the efficient delivery and expression of multiple genes within the same plant cell over a timescale of days. In some cases, the vectors deployed can be fine-tuned to allow differential expression of the various genes. This has opened the way to the deployment of transient expression for such applications as the production of macromolecular complexes and the analysis and manipulation of metabolic pathways. The ability to observe the effect of gene expression in a matter of days means that transient expression is becoming the method of choice for many plant-based synthetic biology applications.

Indexed as

Genes, PlantPlant Physiological PhenomenaSynthetic Biology

Identifiers

PMID24631883
PMCPMC4070481

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