Journal
PROTOPLASMA
Volume 249, Issue 4, Pages 981-999Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-012-0391-9
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Genetic engineering; Homoplasmic; Plastid; Solanaceae; Transplastome
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- Konkuk University, Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea [PJ008182]
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Plastid genetic engineering has come of age, becoming today an attractive alternative approach for the expression of foreign genes, as it offers several advantages over nuclear transformants. Significant progress has been made in plastid genetic engineering in tobacco and other Solanaceae plants, through the use of improved regeneration procedures and transformation vectors with efficient promoters and untranslated regions. Many genes encoding for industrially important proteins and vaccines, as well as genes conferring important agronomic traits, have been stably integrated and expressed in the plastid genome. Despite these advances, it remains a challenge to achieve marked levels of plastid transgene expression in non-green tissues. In this review, we summarize the basic requirements of plastid genetic engineering and discuss the current status, limitations, and the potential of plastid transformation for expanding future studies relating to Solanaceae plants.
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