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Molecular Farming in Plants: Recent Advances and Future Prospects

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Aiming Wang

    1. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Canada

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  2. Shengwu Ma

    1. , Immunology and Transplantation, Lawson Health Research Institute/Plantig, London, Canada

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  • Future green drugs
  • Secrets about making plants medicinal
  • Covers history, current advances and challenges, and the future of molecular farming

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Molecular Farming in Plants: An Overview

    • Shengwu Ma, Aiming Wang
    Pages 1-20

  3. Induction of Oral Tolerance to Treat Autoimmune and Allergic Diseases by Using Transgenic Plants

    • Shengwu Ma, Anthony M. Jevnikar
    Pages 21-35

  4. Molecular Farming Using Bioreactor-Based Plant Cell Suspension Cultures for Recombinant Protein Production

    • Ting-Kuo Huang, Karen A. McDonald
    Pages 37-67

  5. Chloroplast-Derived Therapeutic and Prophylactic Vaccines

    • James S. New, Donevan Westerveld, Henry Daniell
    Pages 69-87

  6. Seed Expression Systems for Molecular Farming

    • Allison R. Kermode
    Pages 89-123

  7. Algae: An Alternative to the Higher Plant System in Gene Farming

    • Christoph Griesbeck, Anna Kirchmayr
    Pages 125-143

  8. The Production of Vaccines and Therapeutic Antibodies in Plants

    • Richard M. Twyman, Stefan Schillberg, Rainer Fischer
    Pages 145-159

  9. Production of Industrial Proteins in Plants

    • Elizabeth E. Hood, Deborah Vicuna Requesens
    Pages 161-181

  10. Transient Expression Using Agroinfiltration and Its Applications in Molecular Farming

    • Rima Menassa, Adil Ahmad, Jussi J. Joensuu
    Pages 183-198

  11. Plant Virus-Mediated Expression in Molecular Farming

    • Aiming Wang
    Pages 199-216

  12. Downstream Processing of Transgenic Plant Systems: Protein Recovery and Purification Strategies

    • Lisa R. Wilken, Zivko L. Nikolov
    Pages 217-257

  13. Biosafety of Molecular Farming in Genetically Modified Plants

    • Didier Breyer, Adinda De Schrijver, Martine Goossens, Katia Pauwels, Philippe Herman
    Pages 259-274

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 275-279
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Molecular farming in plants is a relatively young subject of sciences. As plants can offer an inexpensive and convenient platform for the large-scale production of recombinant proteins with various functions, the driven force from the giant market for recombinant protein pharmaceuticals and industrial enzymes makes this subject grow and advance very quickly. To summarize recent advances, current challenges and future directions in molecular farming, international authorities were invited to write this book for researchers, teachers and students who are interested in this subject. This book, with the focus on the most advanced cutting-edge breakthroughs, covers all the essential aspects of the field of molecular farming in plants: from expression technologies to downstream processing, from products to safety issues, and from current advances and holdups to future developments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Canada

    Aiming Wang

  • , Immunology and Transplantation, Lawson Health Research Institute/Plantig, London, Canada

    Shengwu Ma

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