Nanobiolistics: An Emerging Genetic Transformation Approach
Abstract
Biolistic delivery of biomolecular cargoes to plants with micron-scale projectiles is a well-established technique in plant biotechnology. However, the relatively large micron-scale biolistic projectiles can result in tissue damage, low regeneration efficiency, and create difficulties for the biolistic transformation of isomorphic small cells or subcellular target organelles (i.e., mitochondria and plastids). As an alternative to micron-sized carriers, nanomaterials provide a promising approach for biomolecule delivery to plants. While most studies exploring nanoscale biolistic carriers have been carried out in animal cells and tissues, which lack a cell wall, we can nonetheless extrapolate their utility for nanobiolistic delivery of biomolecules in plant targets. Specifically, nanobiolistics has shown promising results for use in animal systems, in which nanoscale projectiles yield lower levels of cell and tissue damage while maintaining similar transformation efficiencies as their micron-scale counterparts. In this chapter, we specifically discuss biolistic delivery of nanoparticles for plant genetic transformation purposes and identify the figures of merit requiring optimization for broad-scale implementation of nanobiolistics in plant genetic transformations.
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© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020. Francis J. Cunningham, Gozde S. Demirer, Natalie S. Goh, and Huan Zhang contributed equally to this work. The authors acknowledge support from a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI), a Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award, a USDA AFRI award, a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a USDA NIFA award, an NIH MIRA award, support from the Chan-Zuckerberg foundation, and an FFAR New Innovator Award (to M.P.L). F.J.C is supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, N.S.G is supported by a FFAR Fellowship, and G.S.D. is supported by a Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship.Files
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- Eprint ID
- 113702
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-0716-0356-7_7
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20220302-323890000
- PMCID
- PMC10461872
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
- Department of Agriculture
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- NIH
- Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation
- Foundation for Food Research
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Schlumberger Foundation
- Series Name
- Methods in Molecular Biology
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- MIBM 2124