Synthetic Biology and Tissue Engineering

Plant synthetic biology is an emerging field that combines engineering principles with plant biology toward the design cycle and production of new devices. This emerging field should play an important role in future agriculture for traditional crop improvement, but also in enabling tools for novel bio production in plants.. Some pioneering examples are offered as a demonstration of how synthetic biology can be used to modify plants for specific purposes. These include synthetic sensors, synthetic metabolic pathways, and synthetic genomes. We also speculate about the future of synthetic biology of plants.

 

Modern ways to genetically modify plants