Synthetic gene circuits take root

Simon Alamos^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
² Feedstocks Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA.
³ Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁴ Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Comment

Simon Alamos et al. Science. 2022.

. 2022 Aug 12;377(6607):711-712.

doi: 10.1126/science.add6805. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

Simon Alamos^{1

2

3}, Patrick M Shih^{1

2

3

4}

¹ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
² Feedstocks Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA.
³ Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁴ Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Abstract

Complex spatial patterns of gene expression are engineered in plants to modulate root morphology.

Synthetic genetic circuits as a means of reprogramming plant roots.
Brophy JAN, Magallon KJ, Duan L, Zhong V, Ramachandran P, Kniazev K, Dinneny JR. Brophy JAN, et al. Science. 2022 Aug 12;377(6607):747-751. doi: 10.1126/science.abo4326. Epub 2022 Aug 11. Science. 2022. PMID: 35951698