Advantages of Plants

In recent years, plants have emerged as a promising new system for the production of recombinant proteins. Plants are widely described as green factories because they provide possible solutions to several of the safety and economic concerns raised by animal systems. The advantages of plants include economical large-scale... 

One reason for interest in plant cell culture is that over 20,000 different chemicals are produced from plants, with about 1600 new plant chemicals added each year. Also, 25% of all prescribed drugs come from plants. These chemicals can be produced in a bioreactor through suspension culture. Advantages of plant cell suspension culture, as compared to agriculture, are that plant cell suspension culture can be carried out independently of weather conditions and political problems, it does not compete with other agricultural products for land use, and it is done in a controlled environment which minimizes contamination and provides easier product validation and assurance. 

Table I. Some advantages of plant cell immobilization3...

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Numerous reviews concerning plant molecular farming have been published in recent years [1-6]. Analysis of these reviews and of recent research publications shows a change of priorities in the perceived advantages of plants as production hosts for recombinant proteins. Initially, the emphasis was on unhmited scalability and low cost of plant-based production, whereas yield and biosafety issues were not properly addressed. However, the last two parameters are crucial for determining the economics and, consequently the chances for commercial success of each specific plant-based system. 

The tunnel freeze dryers have the same advantages of plant capacity utilization that can be achieved as in multibatch plants, but the flexibility for simultaneous production of different products or in switching from one product to another is lacking. 

Advantages of plant-mediated green synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles. 

Another tendency consolidated in the third phase is the use, when possible and advantageous, of plant solutions based on intrinsic or passive safety. 

Some medicinal agents, particularly proteinaceous substances such as insulin, are now made by fermentation using microorganisms. Is there any possibility of using plants instead If so, what would be the advantages of plants ... 

An important advantage of plants as a recombinant expression system for antibody production is the ability to assemble fiill-length heavy chains with light chains to form full-length antibody efficiently (2). Full-length antibodies are not readily assembled in bacterial expression sterns, and bivalent antibody molecules can only be produced in E. coK Iqr rather complex molecular engineering. 

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