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PLOS BIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001879
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- NIH [GM089985, OD007290]
- Stanford University
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/J/000CA533, BB/K005952/1, BBS/E/J/00000614] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/K005952/1, BBS/E/J/000CA533] Funding Source: UKRI
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Great strides have been made in plant metabolic engineering over the last two decades, with notable success stories including Golden rice. Here, we discuss the field's progress in addressing four long-standing challenges: creating plants that satisfy their own nitrogen requirement, so reducing or eliminating the need for nitrogen fertilizer; enhancing the nutrient content of crop plants; engineering biofuel feed stocks that harbor easy-to-access fermentable saccharides by incorporating self-destructing lignin; and increasing photosynthetic efficiency. We also look to the future at emerging areas of research in this field.
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