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Building biofactories with PPR10s

A new strategy based on a sophisticated and efficient system of modified pentatricopeptide repeat 10 proteins boost plastid transgene expression and the accumulation of foreign proteins by up to 40-fold.

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Fig. 1: Experimental scheme.

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Quétier, F. Building biofactories with PPR10s. Nat. Plants 5, 453–454 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0426-8

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