Use of plant roots for phytoremediation and molecular farming

Doloressa Gleba; Nikolai V. Borisjuk; Ludmyla G. Borisjuk; Ralf Kneer; Alexander Poulev; Marina Skarzhinskaya; Slavik Dushenkov; Sithes Logendra; Yuri Y. Gleba; Ilya Raskin

doi:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.11.5973

Use of plant roots for phytoremediation and molecular farming

Doloressa Gleba, Nikolai V. Borisjuk, Ludmyla G. Borisjuk, Ralf Kneer, Alexander Poulev, Marina Skarzhinskaya, Slavik Dushenkov, Sithes Logendra, Yuri Y. Gleba, Ilya Raskin

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Plant Biology

Rutgers, The State University

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Abstract

Alternative agriculture, which expands the uses of plants well beyond food and fiber, is beginning to change plant biology. Two plant-based biotechnologies were recently developed that take advantage of the ability of plant roots to absorb or secrete various substances. They are (i) phytoextraction, the use of plants to remove pollutants from the environment and (ii) rhizosecretion, a subset of molecular farming, designed to produce and secrete valuable natural products and recombinant proteins from roots. Here we discuss recent advances in these technologies and assess their potential in soil remediation, drug discovery, and molecular farming.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	5973-5977
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	96
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.11.5973
State	Published - May 25 1999

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