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Transplastomics: A Convergence of Genomics and Biotechnology

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Transplastomics are developed predominantly for biotechnological applications since heterologous proteins can be expressed to high levels with bona fide structures and because of maternal inheritance of tailored traits in most of cultivated plants as rare gene leakage through pollens is experimentally witnessed. Further, advances in plastome sequencing and research have been exponential in the post-genomic era; hence, expressing multiple genes to develop biologically functional pharmaceuticals under strong promoters and translation control elements in operons is made possible. This chapter summarizes the developments from plastid genomics to gene expression and briefly describes how transplastome facilitates expression of vaccines, therapeutics, and plantibodies, in addition to tailoring agronomic traits in plants.

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Khan, M.S. (2015). Transplastomics: A Convergence of Genomics and Biotechnology. In: Barh, D., Khan, M., Davies, E. (eds) PlantOmics: The Omics of Plant Science. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2172-2_19

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