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Engineering complex metabolic pathways in plants

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Metabolic engineering can be used to modulate endogenous metabolic pathways in plants or introduce new metabolic capabilities in order to increase the production of a desirable compound or reduce the accumulation of an undesirable one. In practice, there are several major challenges that need to be overcome, such as gaining enough knowledge about the endogenous pathways to understand the best intervention points, identifying and sourcing the most suitable metabolic genes, expressing those genes in such a way as to produce a functional enzyme in a heterologous background, and, finally, achieving the accumulation of target compounds without harming the host plant. This article discusses the strategies that have been developed to engineer complex metabolic pathways in plants, focusing on recent technological developments that allow the most significant bottlenecks to be overcome.
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metabolic diversity, multigene engineering, metabolic branch, metabolic conversion, metabolic bottleneck

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Farré, Gemma, et al. “Engineering Complex Metabolic Pathways in Plants.” Annual Review of Plant Biology, edited by SS Merchant, vol. 65, Annual Reviews, 2014, pp. 187–223, doi:10.1146/annurev-arplant-050213-035825.
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Farré, G., Blancquaert, D., Capell, T., Van Der Straeten, D., Christou, P., & Zhu, C. (2014). Engineering complex metabolic pathways in plants. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 65, 187–223. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-050213-035825
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Farré, Gemma, Dieter Blancquaert, Teresa Capell, Dominique Van Der Straeten, Paul Christou, and Changfu Zhu. 2014. “Engineering Complex Metabolic Pathways in Plants.” Edited by SS Merchant. Annual Review of Plant Biology 65: 187–223. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-050213-035825.
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Farré, Gemma, Dieter Blancquaert, Teresa Capell, Dominique Van Der Straeten, Paul Christou, and Changfu Zhu. 2014. “Engineering Complex Metabolic Pathways in Plants.” Ed by. SS Merchant. Annual Review of Plant Biology 65: 187–223. doi:10.1146/annurev-arplant-050213-035825.
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Farré G, Blancquaert D, Capell T, Van Der Straeten D, Christou P, Zhu C. Engineering complex metabolic pathways in plants. Merchant S, editor. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 2014;65:187–223.
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G. Farré, D. Blancquaert, T. Capell, D. Van Der Straeten, P. Christou, and C. Zhu, “Engineering complex metabolic pathways in plants,” Annual Review of Plant Biology, vol. 65, pp. 187–223, 2014.
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  author       = {{Farré, Gemma and Blancquaert, Dieter and Capell, Teresa and Van Der Straeten, Dominique and Christou, Paul and Zhu, Changfu}},
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  isbn         = {{9780824306656}},
  issn         = {{1543-5008}},
  journal      = {{Annual Review of Plant Biology}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{187--223}},
  publisher    = {{Annual Reviews}},
  title        = {{Engineering complex metabolic pathways in plants}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-050213-035825}},
  volume       = {{65}},
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