Engineering and optimization of the 2-phenylethylglucosinolate production in Nicotiana benthamiana by combining biosynthetic genes from Barbarea vulgaris and Arabidopsis thaliana
Cuiwei Wang, Christoph Crocoll, Niels Agerbirk, Barbara Ann Halkier
This paper demonstrates the feasibility of engineering 2-phenylethylglucosinolate production in Nicotiana benthamiana by combining biosynthetic genes from Barbarea vulgaris and Arabidopsis thaliana, resulting in increased 2PE yield through chimeric pathway optimization.
The Plant Journal · Feb 24, 2021Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology