Abstract
Plants are not only a food resource but are also a valuable source of different materials. Plant biotechnologies help improve food or material yield and increase the number of compounds obtained from plants.
Affecting plant secretory machinery is one of the ways we can modify plant bio -production. Rab GTPases are important organizers of vesicle transport through their cycling between GDP- and GTP -bound forms as well as between membrane compartments.
Here, we discuss whether RAB GTPases can be targets for biotechnology research. We focus on the involvement of RAB GTPases in plant stress responses and cell wall biogenesis, which are two aspects that highly influence plant development.
We conclude is that the complexity of RAB GTPase families and their regulation make these proteins difficult targets for biotechnologies