Santana, Israel https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3108-1897
Wu, Honghong
Hu, Peiguang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9526-6295
Giraldo, Juan Pablo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8400-8944
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Science Foundation (1817363)
Article History
Received: 31 January 2020
Accepted: 26 March 2020
First Online: 27 April 2020
Competing interests
: A pending U.S patent entitled “Compositions and methods for chloroplast genetic and biochemical engineering in planta“ (16/218.429) is based on this work. All authors J.P.G., I.S., H.W., and P.H. are inventors in this patent including Gregory M. Newkirk (University of California, Riverside). Specific aspects of manuscript covered in the patent application include methods for targeted delivery of nanomaterials to chloroplasts using rationally designed guiding peptides.