Molecular Farming of Antibodies

The applications for recombinant antibodies in healthcare are increasing. Being able to produce them on a large scale in plants will make them...

Green Vaccines

Vaccination is one of the most successful developments in preventive human healthcare. In their contribution, Mor and Mason describe how edible...

Harvesting Recombinant Proteins from Food Crops

Many recombinant proteins have been produced in those plants that are ideally suited for laboratory experiments, such as tobacco or Arabidopsis...

An Introduction to Industrial and Pharmaceutical Protein Production in Plants

Advances in plant molecular biotechnology do not merely mean that farmers and research scientists alike can now contemplate a more than adequate...

Technical Proteins from Plants

While most plant-derived recombinant proteins are currently intended for human pharmaceutical applications, plants have also been used to produce...

Plant-Derived Feed Additives and Processing Enzymes

While most plant-derived recombinant proteins are currently intended for human pharmaceutical applications, plants have also been used to produce...

High-Value Pharmaceutical Proteins in Plants

Most of the recombinant proteins that have been produced in plants to date are high-value pharmaceuticals intended for human use. These can...

Molecular Farming in Plants

The large-scale production of recombinant proteins in plants is known as molecular farming (Fischer and Emans, 2000). It is now widely recognised...