Academic Research

Assistant Professor Li-Hung Chen and his team developed a tightly regulated copper-inducible gene expression system using synthetic biology approaches that incorporate a suicide exon and Cre recombinase. This system enables precise control of transgene expression in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana and can be applied to studies of plant immunity and other related research areas. The study was published in New Phytologist (Chiang et al., 2024).

Article source: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.20021