Engineering the Plant Factory for the Production of Biologics and Small-Molecule Medicines

• Main Author: Domenico De Martinis (auth)
• Other Authors: Edward P. Rybicki (auth), Eugenio Benvenuto (auth), Rosella Franconi (auth), Kazuhito Fujiyama (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Biotechnology; plant molecular farming; Metabolic Engineering; transient expression; Genetic Engineering; recombinant protein; biopharmaceuticals; Plant factory; Biobetter
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Plant gene transfer achieved in the early '80s paved the way for the exploitation of the potential of gene engineering to add novel agronomic traits and/or to design plants as factories for high added value molecules. For this latter area of research, the term "Molecular Farming" was...