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ReviewJournal of agricultural and food chemistry2026

Synthetic Biology Approaches to Enzymology in Food and Agriculture Systems.

Sonia Su, Julie M Goddard

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Review in Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sonia SuDepartment of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9021-8809
Julie M GoddardDepartment of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3644-0732

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global food insecurity remains a challenge, with 2.3 billion people worldwide experiencing food insecurity. Applications of synthetic biology offer a promising way to address this crisis through innovative and sustainable enzyme-mediated solutions. This review explores enzymology with food and agriculture systems and how recent advances are aided by synthetic biology. Focusing on how enzymes can be engineered for the greatest good to promote food safety, improved production, and coproduct valorization, we survey state-of-the-art advances in enzyme engineering to achieve these goals, providing a critical review on how technology from other industries could be adapted to food and agriculture. Key areas discussed include biocatalysis of food ingredients, synthetic biology for yield improvements, and computation design of enzymatic pathways for more resource-efficient food processing. This review concludes with a discussion of current limitations, regulations, and future directions for integrating synthetic biology into global food systems.

Indexed as

EnzymesSynthetic BiologyAgricultureBiocatalysisHumansProtein EngineeringEnzymesagriculturebiocatalysisenzyme engineeringfood systemsreviewsynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID41962132
PMCPMC13133908

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