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Research Progress of a Potential Bioreactor: Duckweed.

ABSTRACT: Recently, plant bioreactors have flourished into an exciting area of synthetic biology because of their product safety, inexpensive production cost, and easy scale-up. Duckweed is the smallest and fastest-growing aquatic plant, and has advantages including simple processing and the ability to grow high biomass in smaller areas. Therefore, duckweed could be used as a new potential bioreactor for biological products such as vaccines, antibodies, pharmaceutical proteins, and industrial enzymes. Duckweed has made a breakthrough in biosynthesis as a chassis plant and is being utilized for the production of plenty of biological products or bio-derivatives with multiple uses and high values. This review summarizes the latest progress on genetic background, genetic transformation system, and bioreactor development of duckweed, and provides insights for further exploration and application of duckweed.

SUBMITTER: Yang GL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7828363 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Research Progress of a Potential Bioreactor: Duckweed.

Yang Gui-Li GL Feng Dan D Liu Yu-Ting YT Lv Shi-Ming SM Zheng Meng-Meng MM Tan Ai-Juan AJ

Biomolecules 20210113 1

Recently, plant bioreactors have flourished into an exciting area of synthetic biology because of their product safety, inexpensive production cost, and easy scale-up. Duckweed is the smallest and fastest-growing aquatic plant, and has advantages including simple processing and the ability to grow high biomass in smaller areas. Therefore, duckweed could be used as a new potential bioreactor for biological products such as vaccines, antibodies, pharmaceutical proteins, and industrial enzymes. Duc ...[more]

PMID: 33450858

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