Complementary peptides represent a credible alternative to agrochemicals by activating translation of targeted proteins.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
17 01 2023
17 01 2023
Historique:
received:
21
09
2022
accepted:
10
01
2023
entrez:
17
1
2023
pubmed:
18
1
2023
medline:
20
1
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The current agriculture main challenge is to maintain food production while facing multiple threats such as increasing world population, temperature increase, lack of agrochemicals due to health issues and uprising of weeds resistant to herbicides. Developing novel, alternative, and safe methods is hence of paramount importance. Here, we show that complementary peptides (cPEPs) from any gene can be designed to target specifically plant coding genes. External application of synthetic peptides increases the abundance of the targeted protein, leading to related phenotypes. Moreover, we provide evidence that cPEPs can be powerful tools in agronomy to improve plant traits, such as growth, resistance to pathogen or heat stress, without the needs of genetic approaches. Finally, by combining their activity they can also be used to reduce weed growth.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36650156
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-35951-0
pii: 10.1038/s41467-023-35951-0
pmc: PMC9845214
doi:
Substances chimiques
Agrochemicals
0
Peptides
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
254Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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