Detalle de: Development of plant synthetic biology tools to enhance crop performance

Agronomy faces significant global challenges such as coping with climate change, a need for more sustainable practices, and an increasing demand for more food of higher quality due to a growing population. Addressing them will require the adoption of transformative innovations, such as the genetic technologies that underlie Plant Synthetic Biology. Through transgenesis and more recently gene editing, we can now proactively alter plant DNA to modify their characteristics and address the aforementioned challenges.

In this project, in collaboration with Pilar Cubas (CNB-CSIC), we will develop a novel plant synthetic biology toolkit that includes the latest advances in gene editing (e.g., prime editing, homology directed recombination) with the objective of modifying the branching patterns of tomato plants to increase their agronomic production.