Chloroplasts play an important role in sustaining life on Earth. They are capable to convert sunlight energy into stable chemical energy, and they also synthesis organic matter with inorganic matter. Billions of farmers all over the word rely on cash crops to earn their lives.

Lifeasible offers gene editing services in cash crops for helping researchers reveal mechanisms of vital activities in cash crops and generating genetically edited plats with stronger resistance to stresses and higher yield.

Introduction into Chloroplast

Chloroplasts are considered to have evolved from endosymbiotic cyanobacteria. The high ploidy number of plastid genome and compartmentalization of proteins allow exogenous genes highly expressing. There is a large quantity of exogenous genes have been integrated an expressed in plants via chloroplast genomes. Resulting plenty applications of plants, including developing plants with resistance to varies stresses, increasing of yield and quality, phytoremediation of toxic metals, production of antigens, biopharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes and biofuels.

Overview of Cash Crops

Cash crops, also called profit crops, are agricultural crops grown to sell for profit. Billions of famers all over the world earn their lives on cash crops, including vegetable crops, fruit crops, fiber crops, oil crops, medicine crops, flower crops and other profitable crops.

Typical Cash Crops

Nicotiana tabacum

Chloroplast genome of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is the first one being sequenced. Its leaves can be used as insect repellent and intoxicant. It's the main species that is used to make products for smokers.

Solanum lycopersicum

Tomato is the edible berry of S. lycopersicum, which is one of the most important vegetable or fruit. With gene editing technology, the plants with enhanced photosynthesis, higher yield and stronger resistance to stresses.

Our Services

Chloroplast genomes of many cash crops have been sequenced, which accelerates the gene functional study of their chloroplast genes. Plants can express introduced exogenous gene stably via chloroplasts. Lifeasible offers customers genetically modified cash crops with enhanced properties, such as higher tolerance to stresses, higher resistance to disease, higher yields and better quality by integrating functional genes into chloroplasts.

Lifeasible offers gene editing services in cash crops including but not limited as follows.

Gene Knock-out Services in Chloroplast of Cash Crops

• Single Gene Knock-out Services
  In order to assist our global customers understanding the regulatory mechanism of reactions happen in chloroplasts of cash crops, Lifeasible provide site-specific gene knock-out services.
• Markerless Multiple Gene Knock-out Services
  Lifeasible provides our customers multiple gene knock-out services in chloroplasts of cash crops for studying gene-gene interaction and redundant gene function. Our scientists established a robust toolkit of multiple site-specific recombinases for implementing markerless multiple gene knock-out.

Gene Knock-in Services in Chloroplasts of Cash Crops

We offer gene knock-in service in chloroplasts of cash crops for assisting customers who need overexpressed or knocked-in cash crops for further research.

Service Process

Advantages

Lifeasible offers our customers innovative, efficient, customer-tailored and high-quality gene editing services. And we promise to deliver the results and products on time and with high quality. We serve researchers all over the world with heart and soul. Please feel free to contact us.