Silicon is the next frontier in plant synthetic biology
Silicon has striking similarity with carbon and is found in plant cells. However, there is no specific role that has been assigned to silicon in the life cycle of plants. The amount of silicon in plant cells is species specific and can reach levels comparable to macronutrients. Silicon is the central element for artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and digital revolution thus can act as an informational molecule like nucleic acids while the diverse bonding potential of silicon with different chemical species is analogous to carbon and thus can serve as a structural candidate such as proteins. The discovery of large amounts of silicon on Mars and the moon along with the recent developments of enzyme that can incorporate silicon into organic molecules has propelled the theory of creating silicon-based life. More recently, bacterial cytochrome has been modified through directed evolution such that it could cleave silicon-carbon bonds in organo-silicon compounds thus consolidating on the idea of utilizing silicon in biomolecules. In this article the potential of silicon-based life forms has been hypothesized along with the reasoning that autotrophic virus-like particles can be a lucrative candidate to investigate such potential. Such investigations in the field of synthetic biology and astrobiology will have corollary benefit on Earth in the areas of medicine, sustainable agriculture and environmental sustainability. Bibliometric analysis indicates an increasing interest in synthetic biology. Germany leads in research related to plant synthetic biology, while Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) at UK has highest financial commitments and Chinese Academy of Sciences generates the highest number of publications in the field.
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