Departament de Producció Vegetal I Ciència Forestal, Universitat de Lleida, Av. Alcade Rovira Roure, 191, Lleida 25198, Spain.
Trends Plant Sci. 2010 Jan;15(1):48-56. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2009.09.010. Epub 2009 Oct 21.
The genomics revolution has taught us that a great deal of information can be derived from studying many genes or proteins at the same time. We are beginning to see this approach blossoming in applied research. Instead of attempting to generate useful transgenic plants by introducing single genes, we now see an increasing number of researchers embracing multigene transfer (MGT) as an approach to generate plants with more ambitious phenotypes. MGT allows researchers to achieve goals that were once impossible - the import of entire metabolic pathways, the expression of entire protein complexes, the development of transgenic crops simultaneously engineered to produce a spectrum of added-value compounds. The potential appears limitless.
基因组学革命告诉我们，同时研究许多基因或蛋白质可以获得大量信息。我们开始看到这种方法在应用研究中蓬勃发展。现在，越来越多的研究人员不再试图通过引入单个基因来产生有用的转基因植物，而是开始采用多基因转移 (MGT) 作为一种方法来产生具有更具野心的表型的植物。MGT 使研究人员能够实现曾经不可能实现的目标——导入整个代谢途径、表达整个蛋白质复合物、同时开发转基因作物，使其能够产生一系列增值化合物。潜力似乎是无限的。
