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Chloroplast Engineering: Fundamental Insights and Its Application in Amelioration of Environmental Stress

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Chloroplasts are specialized organelle that are responsible for converting light energy to chemical energy, thereby driving the carbon dioxide fixation. Apart from photosynthesis, chloroplast is the site for essential cellular processes that determine the plant adaptation to changing environment. Owing to the presence of their own expression system, it provides an optimum platform for engineering valued traits as well as site for synthesis of bio-compounds. Advancements in technology have further enhanced the scope of using chloroplast as a multifaceted tool for the biotechnologist to develop stress-tolerant plants and ameliorate environmental stress. Focusing on chloroplast biotechnology, this review discusses the advances in chloroplast engineering and its application in enhancing plant adaptation and resistance to environmental stress and the development of new bioproducts and processes. This is accomplished through analysis of its biogenesis and physiological processes, highlighting the chloroplast engineering and recent developments in chloroplast biotechnology. In the first part of the review, the evolution and principles of structural organization and physiology of chloroplast are discussed. In the second part, the chief methods and mechanisms involved in chloroplast transformation are analyzed. The last part represents an updated analysis of the application of chloroplast engineering in crop improvement and bioproduction of industrial and health compounds.

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Singhal, R., Pal, R. & Dutta, S. Chloroplast Engineering: Fundamental Insights and Its Application in Amelioration of Environmental Stress. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 195, 2463–2482 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-022-03930-8

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