C. N. Stewart

Creating the first synthetic plastid genome in plants.

Over the last decade, there has been a shift in biotechnology from genome reading (sequencing) to genome writing (engineering). While significant progress has been made in prokaryotes and yeast, genome writing remains in its infancy in plants. Unlike their complex nuclear genomes, the compact and biotechnologically att...

Synthetic transcriptional repression systems in plants

Environmental Risk Assessment and Confinement of Genetically Engineered Trees with an Emphasis on Vegetative Reproduction

Genetic engineering (GE) and gene editing may endow traits to trees such as increased biomass and the production of novel biomaterials. Long-lived organisms such as trees might be subject to biotechnology-related risks that could be different than those of annual row crops. Those risks could be relevant to production i...