Molecular Farming in Plants: Recent Advances and Future Prospects

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wang, Aiming (Editor), Ma, Shengwu (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Biotechnology.; Genetic engineering.; Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant breeding.; Genetic Engineering.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Biomedicine general.; Life Sciences, general.

Since the first recombinant plant-derived pharmaceutical protein (PDP), i.e., human serum albumin, was produced in transgenic tobacco and potato plants in 1990, molecular farming in plants has emerged as a new subject of sciences. The plant system has the potential to provide virtually unlimited qua...