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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2021

RNA Viral Vectors for Accelerating Plant Synthetic Biology.

Arjun Khakhar, Daniel F Voytas

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Virus-induced transgene- and tissue culture-free heritable genome editing in tomato.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. RNAi and genome editing of sugarcane: Progress and prospects.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2025
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  12. Robust soybean leaf agroinfiltration.Plant cell reports · 2024
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  14. Construction of a mini-RNA replicon inSynthetic biology (Oxford, England) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Arjun KhakharDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States.
Daniel F VoytasDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tools of synthetic biology have enormous potential to help us uncover the fundamental mechanisms controlling development and metabolism in plants. However, their effective utilization typically requires transgenesis, which is plagued by long timescales and high costs. In this review we explore how transgenesis can be minimized by delivering foreign genetic material to plants with systemically mobile and persistent vectors based on RNA viruses. We examine the progress that has been made thus far and highlight the hurdles that need to be overcome and some potential strategies to do so. We conclude with a discussion of biocontainment mechanisms to ensure these vectors can be used safely as well as how these vectors might expand the accessibility of plant synthetic biology techniques. RNA vectors stand poised to revolutionize plant synthetic biology by making genetic manipulation of plants cheaper and easier to deploy, as well as by accelerating experimental timescales from years to weeks.

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gene editingplant synthetic biologyRNA viral vectorsRNA virusessynthetic biologysynthetic transcription factorsviral engineering

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PMID34249040
PMCPMC8261061

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