Food, water, our favorite series, books, your computer. Maybe you will also need some medicines, vitamins, insulin… All those substances are necessary, but they take to much space, they are hard to conserve, its production is expensive and they are limited.
The objective of our project is to be able to produce these protein compounds in a simple and cheap way and occupying the least possible space. To do this, we will create a plasmid of interest using Golden Braid 2.0 technology and use synthetic biology to modify Nicotiana benthamiana plants through Agrobacterium tumefaciens bacteria so that they produce a protein of interest that can be easily purified.
In parallel, we will demonstrate that the presence of volatile compounds produced by fungi considerably increases the production of starch in plants. In our case, we will use the Alternaria alternata fungus in the presence of Arabidopsis thaliana, although the conclusions can be applied to the rest of the plants. Thanks to our project it will be possible the constant production of proteins in rockets sent to space and space stations, thus facilitating life in these places.
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