Abstract
In the rapidly expanding field of synthetic biology, chloroplasts represent attractive targets for installation of valuable genetic circuits in plant cells. Conventional methods for engineering the chloroplast genome (plastome) have relied on homologous recombination (HR) vectors for site-specific transgene integration for over 30 years. Recently, episomal-replicating vectors have emerged as valuable alternative tools for genetic engineering of chloroplasts. With regard to this technology, in this chapter we describe a method for engineering potato (Solanum tuberosum) chloroplasts to generate transgenic plants using the small synthetic plastome (mini-synplastome). In this method, the mini-synplastome is designed for Golden Gate cloning for easy assembly of chloroplast transgene operons. Mini-synplastomes have the potential to accelerate plant synthetic biology by enabling complex metabolic engineering in plants with similar flexibility of engineered microorganisms.
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Occhialini, A., Pfotenhauer, A.C., Daniell, H., Neal Stewart, C., Lenaghan, S.C. (2023). Genetic Engineering of Potato (Solanum tuberosum) Chloroplasts Using the Small Synthetic Plastome “Mini-Synplastome”. In: Yang, B., Harwood, W., Que, Q. (eds) Plant Genome Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2653. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3131-7_5
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