Plant Viral Expression Vectors and Production of Biopharmaceuticals in Plants

The stable transformation of plants has been used routinely as a method to express vaccine and therapeutic proteins. A number of disadvantages such as the length of time taken for transgenic plants to be generated and containment (i.e., preventing the escape of transgenes into the environment) have brought about a search for alternative methods by which to express proteins in plants. One such alternative is the utilization of plant virus expression systems. 

Biopharmaceuticals in Plants Toward the Next Century of Medicine 

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A Plant Viral Expression Vectors and Production of Biopharmaceuticals in Plants... 

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