ReviewGenes2018
Emerging Opportunities for Synthetic Biology in Agriculture.
Review in Genes, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
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28 citing papers in PubMed.
- Synthetic Biology Approaches to Enzymology in Food and Agriculture Systems.Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2026Review
- Applications of bio-enhanced cementitious composites for sustainable building materials: emission-reduction and carbon-sequestration pathways.Systems microbiology and biomanufacturing · 2026Review
- Cell-free recombinase-integrated Boolean output system.Cell systems · 2025Article
- Smarter stomata: emergent technologies unlocking yield potential in a changing climate.AoB PLANTS · 2025Review
- Beyond Cutting: CRISPR-Driven Synthetic Biology Toolkit for Next-Generation Microalgal Metabolic Engineering.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Evolution of agricultural biotechnology is the paradigm shift in crop resilience and development: a review.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
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- Synthetic biology in plants.Plant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan) · 2024Article
- A century of studying plant secondary metabolism-From "what?" to "where, how, and why?"Plant physiology · 2024Review
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- A Genetic Circuit Design for Targeted Viral RNA Degradation.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The design of synthetic gene circuits in plants: new components, old challenges.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Review
- Synthetic Biology─High Time to Deliver?ACS synthetic biology · 2023Article
- The Microbial Connection to Sustainable Agriculture.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Host-mediated gene engineering and microbiome-based technology optimization for sustainable agriculture and environment.Functional & integrative genomics · 2023Review
- Metabolic pathways engineering for drought or/and heat tolerance in cereals.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Network-level containment of single-species bioengineering.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- An Account of Models of Molecular Circuits for Associative Learning with Reinforcement Effect and Forced Dissociation.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Ecological firewalls for synthetic biology.iScience · 2022Article
- The Emergence of Genome Editing-Innovation Network Dynamics of Academic Publications, Patents, and Business Activities.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Rapid expansion in the emerging field of synthetic biology has to date mainly focused on the microbial sciences and human health. However, the zeitgeist is that synthetic biology will also shortly deliver major outcomes for agriculture. The primary industries of agriculture, fisheries and forestry, face significant and global challenges; addressing them will be assisted by the sector’s strong history of early adoption of transformative innovation, such as the genetic technologies that underlie synthetic biology. The implementation of synthetic biology within agriculture may, however, be hampered given the industry is dominated by higher plants and mammals, where large and often polyploid genomes and the lack of adequate tools challenge the ability to deliver outcomes in the short term. However, synthetic biology is a rapidly growing field, new techniques in genome design and synthesis, and more efficient molecular tools such as CRISPR/Cas9 may harbor opportunities more broadly than the development of new cultivars and breeds. In particular, the ability to use synthetic biology to engineer biosensors, synthetic speciation, microbial metabolic engineering, mammalian multiplexed CRISPR, novel anti microbials, and projects such as Yeast 2.0 all have significant potential to deliver transformative changes to agriculture in the short, medium and longer term. Specifically, synthetic biology promises to deliver benefits that increase productivity and sustainability across primary industries, underpinning the industry’s prosperity in the face of global challenges.
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