NP-mediated gene transformation ... The most important role of nanotechnology for plant genetic engineering is the ability to control the delivery of goods to different plant species and tissues....

February 22, 2023 - Therefore, new approaches and tools are needed to broaden the range of transformable species and increase the throughput at which transformation is achieved. Nanotechnology has revolutionized delivery, sensing and imaging in microbial and animal systems, but its application in plants remains scant.

Plant genetic engineering is essential for improving crop yield, quality, and resistance to abiotic/biotic stresses for sustainable agriculture. Agrobacterium-, biolistic bombardment-, electroporation-, and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-mediated genetic-transformation systems are extensively ...

March 12, 2021 - CRISPR–Cas genetic engineering of plants holds tremendous potential for providing food security, battling biotic and abiotic crop stresses caused by climate change, and for environmental remediation and sustainability. Since the discovery of CRISPR–Cas technology, its usefulness has been ...

From targeted gene insertion techniques to gene editing tool delivery systems, nanotechnology presents a promising path for improving many aspects of crop modification. However, little is known about the current application of nanotechnology and genetic engineering (GE) to improve agricultural ...

January 9, 2025 - Nanotechnology enhances gene manipulation, improving CRISPR delivery and gene editing efficiency with innovative nanoparticle-based systems.

April 26, 2021 - One significant issue of the CRISPR ... commercial development (He and Zhao, 2020). Nanotechnology can help distribute genetic materials to plants to enable genetic engineering and stabilize genetic materials, including improving their double-stranded RNA efficacy for plant ...

December 2, 2022 - For this reason, scientists are ... candidate for nanoparticle synthesis. In recent decades, cyanobacteria have garnered significant interest due to their prospective nanotechnological uses. This review will outline the applications of genetically engineered cyanobacteria ...

The manipulation usually consists ... genes, genetic fragments or even altering a single nucleotide, in order to produce improved or novel organisms. For instance, we recently showed the possibility to engineer stem cells to enhance the anti-tumor immune response and lifespan of animals. < Keywords: Nanotechnology, Grey and ...

Material at the nanometer scale behaves differently than bulk material. Nanotechnology has brought applications in genomics and biomedical field. For example, next-gen sequencing technologies, especially for long-reads of single DNA molecules, use nanotechnology approaches.

January 6, 2022 - Abstract Plant genetic engineering is essential for improving crop yield, quality, and resistance to abiotic/biotic stresses for sustainable agriculture. Agrobacterium-, biolistic bombardment-, ele...

Nanomaterials are currently being developed for the specific cell/tissue/organ delivery of genetic material. Nanomaterials are considered as non-viral vectors for gene therapy use. However, there are several requirements for developing a device ...

June 5, 2023 - Plant genetic engineering will become important due to the increased demand for food, medicine, and materials. Nanotechnology can help expand the existing plant transformation toolkit and generate positive societal impact.

January 21, 2025 - Nanotechnology to advance CRISPR–Cas genetic engineering of plants. Nat. Nanotechnol. 16, 243–250. doi:10.1038/s41565-021-00854-y · PubMed Abstract | CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar · Demirer, G. S., Zhang, H., Goh, N. S., Pinals, R. L., Chang, R., and Landry, M. P. (2020). Carbon nanocarriers deliver siRNA to intact plant cells for ...

December 22, 2023 - They protect the genetic material from degradation and facilitate targeted delivery to specific cells or tissues. Lipid-based nanoparticles, for instance, can encapsulate nucleic acids and enhance cellular uptake, enabling efficient gene transfer. Enhanced targeting and specificity: Nanotechnology allows for the engineering ...

February 26, 2024 - This collaboration has recently generated a Nature Nanotechnology perspective article, which is one of my papers that I am the proudest of6. In this perspective article, we identified major barriers preventing CRISPR-mediated genetic engineering from reaching its full potential in plants, and we discussed the ways that nanoparticle technologies can lower or eliminate these barriers (Box 2 of the perspective paper). For ...

January 12, 2018 - One of the largest hurdles for gene therapy is the question on how to deliver a sufficient number of genes to the correct cells in the correct tissue. The development of targeted nanoparticles delivering the gene therapy may well be a solution to this issue. Of course, future developments in nanotechnology can provide us with other tools that we can use in genetic engineering ...