Engineering of Plant Metabolome Using the Organelle Glue Technique

Abstract

Plant cells regulate their metabolic activity in response to fluctuating environments, in part by changing the arrangement and interaction of organelles. This means that if we can manipulate the interactions of organelles, the plant can be engineered to have desirable metabolic activities. We recently developed the “organelle glue technique”, in which inter-organellar interactions are manipulated by using the multimerization property of fluorescent proteins. Using this technique, we established transformed plants with altered metabolic activity at the pathway level. Here, we review the current state of the organelle glue technique.