Precision delivery of multiscale payloads to tissue-specific targets in plants
The precise deployment of functional payloads to plant tissues is a new approach to help advance the fundamental understanding of plant biology and accelerate plant engineering. Here, the design of a silk‐based biomaterial is reported to fabricate a microneedle‐like device, dubbed “phytoinjector,” c...
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| author | Cao, Yunteng Lim, Eugene Xu, Menglong Weng, Jing‐Ke Marelli, Benedetto |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Cao, Yunteng Lim, Eugene Xu, Menglong Weng, Jing‐Ke Marelli, Benedetto |
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| description | The precise deployment of functional payloads to plant tissues is a new approach to help advance the fundamental understanding of plant biology and accelerate plant engineering. Here, the design of a silk‐based biomaterial is reported to fabricate a microneedle‐like device, dubbed “phytoinjector,” capable of delivering a variety of payloads ranging from small molecules to large proteins into specific loci of various plant tissues. It is shown that phytoinjector can be used to deliver payloads into plant vasculature to study material transport in xylem and phloem and to perform complex biochemical reactions in situ. In another application, it is demonstrated Agrobacterium‐mediated gene transfer to shoot apical meristem (SAM) and leaves at various stages of growth. Tuning of the material composition enables the fabrication of another device, dubbed “phytosampler,” which is used to precisely sample plant sap. The design of plant‐specific biomaterials to fabricate devices for drug delivery in planta opens new avenues to enhance plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, provides new tools for diagnostics, and enables new opportunities in plant engineering. ©2020 |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1248872022-09-29T20:52:44Z Precision delivery of multiscale payloads to tissue-specific targets in plants Cao, Yunteng Lim, Eugene Xu, Menglong Weng, Jing‐Ke Marelli, Benedetto Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering General Engineering General Physics and Astronomy General Materials Science Medicine (miscellaneous) General Chemical Engineering Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) The precise deployment of functional payloads to plant tissues is a new approach to help advance the fundamental understanding of plant biology and accelerate plant engineering. Here, the design of a silk‐based biomaterial is reported to fabricate a microneedle‐like device, dubbed “phytoinjector,” capable of delivering a variety of payloads ranging from small molecules to large proteins into specific loci of various plant tissues. It is shown that phytoinjector can be used to deliver payloads into plant vasculature to study material transport in xylem and phloem and to perform complex biochemical reactions in situ. In another application, it is demonstrated Agrobacterium‐mediated gene transfer to shoot apical meristem (SAM) and leaves at various stages of growth. Tuning of the material composition enables the fabrication of another device, dubbed “phytosampler,” which is used to precisely sample plant sap. The design of plant‐specific biomaterials to fabricate devices for drug delivery in planta opens new avenues to enhance plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, provides new tools for diagnostics, and enables new opportunities in plant engineering. ©2020 Office of Naval Research (award no. N000141812258) National Science Foundation (award no. CMMI-1752172) 2020-04-27T19:41:10Z 2020-04-27T19:41:10Z 2020-04-22 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2198-3844 2198-3844 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124887 Cao, Yunteng, et al., "Precision delivery of multiscale payloads to tissue-specific targets in plants." Advanced Science 7 (2020): no. 1903551 doi 10.1002/advs.201903551 ©2020 Author(s) 10.1002/advs.201903551 Advanced Science Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Wiley Wiley |
| spellingShingle | General Engineering General Physics and Astronomy General Materials Science Medicine (miscellaneous) General Chemical Engineering Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) Cao, Yunteng Lim, Eugene Xu, Menglong Weng, Jing‐Ke Marelli, Benedetto Precision delivery of multiscale payloads to tissue-specific targets in plants |
| title | Precision delivery of multiscale payloads to tissue-specific targets in plants |
| title_full | Precision delivery of multiscale payloads to tissue-specific targets in plants |
| title_fullStr | Precision delivery of multiscale payloads to tissue-specific targets in plants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Precision delivery of multiscale payloads to tissue-specific targets in plants |
| title_short | Precision delivery of multiscale payloads to tissue-specific targets in plants |
| title_sort | precision delivery of multiscale payloads to tissue specific targets in plants |
| topic | General Engineering General Physics and Astronomy General Materials Science Medicine (miscellaneous) General Chemical Engineering Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124887 |
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