A Research Topic in honor of Professor Reto Jörg Strasser’s 80th birthday, which was on December 28, 2023, invites original research and review papers for ...

Plants mastered the art of harvesting sunlight billions of years ago, using elegant rings of pigments in their leaves. Now, ...

Transgenic chloroplasts offer unique advantages in plant biotechnology, including high-level foreign protein expression, absence of epigenetic effects, and gene containment due to the lack of ...

We show that chloroplasts can express a secretory protein, human somatotropin, in a soluble, biologically active, disulfide-bonded form. High concentrations of recombinant protein accumulation are ...

The researchers used two catalysts, both based in transition metals, iridium and molybdenum for the experiment.