Crop Protein Improvement

Plant proteins in crops are easily digested and absorbed by the human body and have various physiological health functions. As one of the main sources of dietary protein supplementation for humans, improving protein composition in crops plays an important role in developing highly nutritious and applicable crop varieties.

Lifeasible specializes in the field of synthetic biology in agriculture. We focus on applying synthetic biology in crop nutrition improvement and provide effective technical support and research strategies for researchers to improve the protein composition of crops. By improving the protein composition of crops, we can make crops more economically applicable, for example, by improving and regulating the protein composition of crops through biotechnology to produce crops suitable for the production of vegetable protein meat and by regulating the gluten protein content of wheat to improve the quality of flour to produce wheat varieties more suitable for various processing applications.

Application of crop protein improvement

• Plant protein meat

Plant protein is the main source of protein in vegetarian diets and can be used to make meat imitation products that are similar in shape, taste, and texture to the corresponding animal foods. For example, soy protein meat is made of soybean as raw material, and through the processing of soy protein powder into lean slices of vegetable protein, its protein content is much higher than the general animal meat, and the texture, structure, color, toughness is similar to animal meat. And because of its low-fat, green, safe, long-term consumption can enhance physical fitness, beneficial to health.

• Wheat gluten content improvement

The reason why wheat flour can be processed into a wide variety of foods lies in the unique gluten protein contained in its seeds. Depending on the amount of wheat gluten protein content, different types of specialized foods can be processed. Gluten protein has high nutritional value and contains very high amounts of calcium ions, inorganic salts, potassium ions, and other components, which have the effect of whitening skin, delaying skin aging, strengthening the body's immunity, and promoting intestinal peristalsis.

Use of genetic engineering technology to improve crop protein

Lifeasible provides genetic engineering technology for improving crop protein. Genetic engineering technology has been applied to many crops as an effective method for improving crop nutrient composition and has yielded some excellent varieties. By screening excellent protein gene resources and transferring them into homozygous or heterozygous plants, we can effectively achieve the improvement of protein content, quality, and other related components in crop seeds. Our technical services not only open the way for the production of special proteins but also, we provide excellent edible proteins for human beings, which are important for maintaining life health and improving human life.

• Expression of feedback-insensitive enzyme-related genes in the biosynthetic pathway improves the accumulation of corresponding free amino acids in crop seeds. It increases the nutritional value of crops by increasing the free amino acid content.
• Use the major storage proteins in crops as carriers of bioactive peptides to improve the accumulation of storage and exogenous proteins in crops.
• Removal of allergens from crop seeds without any constitutive, developmental or structural changes using gene silencing technology.

Our service workflow

Lifeasible offers a full range of services to help improve the nutritional value of crops and their suitability for use in processing. Our one-stop, comprehensive technical services support a wide range of needs in crop nutritional value improvement research. If you are interested in our services, please feel free to contact us.