Green horizons: how plant synthetic biology can enable space exploration and drive on Earth sustainability
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2024
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Morgan, M.F.
Diab, J.
Gilliham, M.
Mortimer, J.C.
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Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2024; 86:103069-1-103069-7
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Matthew Fox Morgan, Jonathan Diab, Matthew Gilliham, and Jenny C Mortimer
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As humanity looks towards expanding activity from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond, resource use efficiency and self-sustainability will be critical to ensuring success in the long term. Furthermore, solutions developed for the stringent requirements of space will be equally valuable in meeting sustainability goals here on Earth. Advances in synthetic biology allow us to harness the complex metabolism of life to produce the materials we need in situ. Translating those lessons learned from microbial systems to more carbon-efficient photosynthetic organisms is an area of growing interest. Plants can be engineered to sustainably meet a range of needs, from fuels to materials and medicines.
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© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)