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SUBMITTER: Garcia-Garcia JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7555113 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
García-García Jorge D JD Joshi Jaya J Patterson Jenelle A JA Trujillo-Rodriguez Lidimarie L Reisch Christopher R CR Javanpour Alex A AA Liu Chang C CC Hanson Andrew D AD
Life (Basel, Switzerland) 20200905 9
Plant evolution has produced enzymes that may not be optimal for maximizing yield and quality in today's agricultural environments and plant biotechnology applications. By improving enzyme performance, it should be possible to alleviate constraints on yield and quality currently imposed by kinetic properties or enzyme instability. Enzymes can be optimized more quickly than naturally possible by applying directed evolution, which entails mutating a target gene in vitro and screening or selecting ...[more]