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  • Crop protection innovation lags despite urgent needs for global food security and mounting regulatory pressures.
  • Limited success of alternative modalities like peptides and RNAi highlights the demand for novel sustainable solutions.
  • Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a breakthrough therapeutic modality using proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) and molecular glues (MGs) to degrade target proteins via the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the rationale, challenges, and applications of TPD for agricultural crop protection.
  • To highlight TPD as a disruptive alternative to conventional small molecule inhibitors in agriculture.
  • To assess the potential of TPD as a next-generation crop protection solution.

Main Methods:

  • Review and perspective on the application of TPD in agriculture.
  • Analysis of PROTACs' functionality in insect cells and organisms.
  • Discussion of key challenges and potential applications of TPD technology.

Main Results:

  • PROTACs have demonstrated efficacy in insect cells and whole organisms.
  • TPD technology leverages the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) for targeted protein degradation.
  • The potential breadth of applications for TPD in agriculture is significant.

Conclusions:

  • TPD represents a promising and potentially disruptive technology for agricultural crop protection.
  • TPD offers a sustainable alternative to traditional small molecule inhibitors.
  • Further development of TPD holds significant potential for ensuring global food security.