Nanomaterials as tools in plant transformation: A protoplast-centric perspective
Genetic engineering of plants can boost disease resistance, enhance crop traits, and ultimately improve agricultural productivity. Several approaches to plant bioengineering have been successful in recent decades. Nanomaterials (NMs) can be customized and fabricated with targeting capabilities, maki...
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| description | Genetic engineering of plants can boost disease resistance, enhance crop traits, and ultimately improve agricultural productivity. Several approaches to plant bioengineering have been successful in recent decades. Nanomaterials (NMs) can be customized and fabricated with targeting capabilities, making them well-suited for bioengineering applications. These NMs include organic, inorganic, and composite materials with many different structures, including nanofibers, nanoparticles (NPs), and nanomembranes. Protoplasts are often used as target cells because they lack a cell wall and are more likely to endocytose NM. In this review, the efficacy of NMs in delivering genetic material to protoplasts is examined. The challenges associated with protoplast generation and optimization of protocols for transformation are explored and the possible advantages of NMs in this process are identified. The chemical properties of these NMs in relation to their potency is briefly discussed. Ultimately, this technology is evolving and our understanding of NMs and the requirement for migration through the cellular membrane is still missing several key pieces of information. The next decades will likely produce important new insights that will have important impacts in this field. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5ccd454e9828452fa61287f2742293a02025-08-20T02:35:40ZengElsevierPlant Nano Biology2773-11112024-11-011010010010.1016/j.plana.2024.100100Nanomaterials as tools in plant transformation: A protoplast-centric perspectiveZhila Osmani0Lipu Wang1Wei Xiao2Marianna Kulka3Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Quantum and Nanotechnologies Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CanadaDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CanadaFaculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Quantum and Nanotechnologies Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Correspondence to: Quantum and Nanotechnologies Research Center, University of Alberta, 11421 Saskatchewan Drive, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2M9, Canada.Genetic engineering of plants can boost disease resistance, enhance crop traits, and ultimately improve agricultural productivity. Several approaches to plant bioengineering have been successful in recent decades. Nanomaterials (NMs) can be customized and fabricated with targeting capabilities, making them well-suited for bioengineering applications. These NMs include organic, inorganic, and composite materials with many different structures, including nanofibers, nanoparticles (NPs), and nanomembranes. Protoplasts are often used as target cells because they lack a cell wall and are more likely to endocytose NM. In this review, the efficacy of NMs in delivering genetic material to protoplasts is examined. The challenges associated with protoplast generation and optimization of protocols for transformation are explored and the possible advantages of NMs in this process are identified. The chemical properties of these NMs in relation to their potency is briefly discussed. Ultimately, this technology is evolving and our understanding of NMs and the requirement for migration through the cellular membrane is still missing several key pieces of information. The next decades will likely produce important new insights that will have important impacts in this field.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773111124000433NPsGene deliveryPlant protoplastPlant transformationCrop improvement |
| spellingShingle | Zhila Osmani Lipu Wang Wei Xiao Marianna Kulka Nanomaterials as tools in plant transformation: A protoplast-centric perspective Plant Nano Biology NPs Gene delivery Plant protoplast Plant transformation Crop improvement |
| title | Nanomaterials as tools in plant transformation: A protoplast-centric perspective |
| title_full | Nanomaterials as tools in plant transformation: A protoplast-centric perspective |
| title_fullStr | Nanomaterials as tools in plant transformation: A protoplast-centric perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nanomaterials as tools in plant transformation: A protoplast-centric perspective |
| title_short | Nanomaterials as tools in plant transformation: A protoplast-centric perspective |
| title_sort | nanomaterials as tools in plant transformation a protoplast centric perspective |
| topic | NPs Gene delivery Plant protoplast Plant transformation Crop improvement |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773111124000433 |
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