Wolffia, a minimalist plant and synthetic biology chassis

Lam, Eric; Michael, Todd P.

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2021.11.014

Title: Wolffia, a minimalist plant and synthetic biology chassis

Journal Article · 13 December 2021 · Trends in Plant Science

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2021.11.014 · OSTI ID:1977692

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Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (United States); OSTI
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA (United States)

A highly simplified species for genome engineering would facilitate rational design of a synthetic plant. A candidate species is the aquatic, non-grass monocot wolffia (Wolffia australiana) in the Lemnaceae family. Commonly known as watermeal, wolffia is a rootless ball of several thousand cells the size of a pinhead and the fastest growing plant known on Earth. Its extreme morphological reduction is coupled to transposon-mediated streamlining of its transcriptome, which represents a core set of nonredundant protein coding genes. Despite its body plan and transcriptome being highly specialized for continuous growth, wolffia retains cell types relevant to higher plants. Finally, systems level studies with this species could enable the creation of a defined biological chassis for synthetic plant construction.

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Research Organization:: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018244

OSTI ID:: 1977692

Journal Information:: Trends in Plant Science, Journal Name: Trends in Plant Science Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 27; ISSN 1360-1385

Publisher:: Cell PressCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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