The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Prospects and Challenges
The long atmospheric residence time of CO2 creates an urgent need to add atmospheric carbon drawdown to CO2 regulatory strategies. Synthetic and systems biology (SSB), which enables manipulation of cellular phenotypes, offers a powerful approach to amplifying and adding new possibilities to current...
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doaj-8204bdf3eb454174838492416fb1235f2021-01-07T10:26:42ZengAmerican Association for the Advancement of ScienceBioDesign Research2693-12572020-01-01202010.34133/2020/1016207The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Prospects and ChallengesCharles DeLisi0Aristides Patrinos1Michael MacCracken2Dan Drell3George Annas4Adam Arkin5George Church6Robert Cook-Deegan7Henry Jacoby8Mary Lidstrom9Jerry Melillo10Ron Milo11Keith Paustian12John Reilly13Richard J. Roberts14Daniel Segrè15Susan Solomon16Dominic Woolf17Stan D. Wullschleger18Xiaohan Yang19Department of Biomedical Engineering and Program in Bioinformatics,College of Engineering,Boston University,Boston MA 02215,USAThe NOVIM Group,Kohn Hall,UC Santa Barbara,CA 93106,USAClimate Institute,Washington,DC,USADepartment of Energy,Washington,DC,USACenter for Health Law,Ethics & Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health,School of Medicine,Boston University,USADepartment of Bioengineering,University of California,Berkeley CA,USADepartment of Genetics,Harvard Medical School,Cambridge MA,USASchool for the Future of Innovation in Society,Arizona State University,Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center,1800 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006,USASloan School of Management,MIT,Cambridge MA,USADepartment of Chemical Engineering,University of Washington,Seattle Washington,USAThe Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole,MA,USADepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences,Weizmann Institute of Science,Rehovot,IsraelDepartment of Soil and Crop Sciences,Colorado State University,Fort Collins CO 80523,USAMIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change,MIT,Cambridge MA,USANew England Biolabs,Beverly MA,USADepartment of Biology and Program in Bioinformatics,Boston University,Boston MA 02215,USADepartment of Earth,Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,MIT,Cambridge MA,USASoil and Crop Sciences Section,School of Integrated Plant Sciences,Cornell University,Ithaca NY,USAEnvironmental Sciences Division,Oak Ridge National Laboratory,Oak Ridge TN,USABiosciences Division,Oak Ridge National Laboratory,Oak Ridge,TN,USAThe long atmospheric residence time of CO2 creates an urgent need to add atmospheric carbon drawdown to CO2 regulatory strategies. Synthetic and systems biology (SSB), which enables manipulation of cellular phenotypes, offers a powerful approach to amplifying and adding new possibilities to current land management practices aimed at reducing atmospheric carbon. The participants (in attendance: Christina Agapakis, George Annas, Adam Arkin, George Church, Robert Cook-Deegan, Charles DeLisi, Dan Drell, Sheldon Glashow, Steve Hamburg, Henry Jacoby, Henry Kelly, Mark Kon, Todd Kuiken, Mary Lidstrom, Mike MacCracken, June Medford, Jerry Melillo, Ron Milo, Pilar Ossorio, Ari Patrinos, Keith Paustian, Kristala Jones Prather, Kent Redford, David Resnik, John Reilly, Richard J. Roberts, Daniel Segre, Susan Solomon, Elizabeth Strychalski, Chris Voigt, Dominic Woolf, Stan Wullschleger, and Xiaohan Yang) identified a range of possibilities by which SSB might help reduce greenhouse gas concentrations and which might also contribute to environmental sustainability and adaptation. These include, among other possibilities, engineering plants to convert CO2 produced by respiration into a stable carbonate, designing plants with an increased root-to-shoot ratio, and creating plants with the ability to self-fertilize. A number of serious ecological and societal challenges must, however, be confronted and resolved before any such application can be fully assessed, realized, and deployed.http://dx.doi.org/10.34133/2020/1016207 |
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Charles DeLisi Aristides Patrinos Michael MacCracken Dan Drell George Annas Adam Arkin George Church Robert Cook-Deegan Henry Jacoby Mary Lidstrom Jerry Melillo Ron Milo Keith Paustian John Reilly Richard J. Roberts Daniel Segrè Susan Solomon Dominic Woolf Stan D. Wullschleger Xiaohan Yang |
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The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Prospects and Challenges |
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The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Prospects and Challenges |
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The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Prospects and Challenges |
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The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Prospects and Challenges |
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The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Prospects and Challenges |
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role of synthetic biology in atmospheric greenhouse gas reduction: prospects and challenges |
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The long atmospheric residence time of CO2 creates an urgent need to add atmospheric carbon drawdown to CO2 regulatory strategies. Synthetic and systems biology (SSB), which enables manipulation of cellular phenotypes, offers a powerful approach to amplifying and adding new possibilities to current land management practices aimed at reducing atmospheric carbon. The participants (in attendance: Christina Agapakis, George Annas, Adam Arkin, George Church, Robert Cook-Deegan, Charles DeLisi, Dan Drell, Sheldon Glashow, Steve Hamburg, Henry Jacoby, Henry Kelly, Mark Kon, Todd Kuiken, Mary Lidstrom, Mike MacCracken, June Medford, Jerry Melillo, Ron Milo, Pilar Ossorio, Ari Patrinos, Keith Paustian, Kristala Jones Prather, Kent Redford, David Resnik, John Reilly, Richard J. Roberts, Daniel Segre, Susan Solomon, Elizabeth Strychalski, Chris Voigt, Dominic Woolf, Stan Wullschleger, and Xiaohan Yang) identified a range of possibilities by which SSB might help reduce greenhouse gas concentrations and which might also contribute to environmental sustainability and adaptation. These include, among other possibilities, engineering plants to convert CO2 produced by respiration into a stable carbonate, designing plants with an increased root-to-shoot ratio, and creating plants with the ability to self-fertilize. A number of serious ecological and societal challenges must, however, be confronted and resolved before any such application can be fully assessed, realized, and deployed. |
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