Societal Impact Statement Therapeutic protein production in plants is an area of great
potential for increasing and improving the production of proteins for the treatment or …

Imagine a world in which any protein, either naturally occurring or designed by man, could
be produced safely, inexpensively and in almost unlimited quantities using only simple …

Plants provide an inexpensive and convenient system for the large-scale production of
valuable recombinant proteins. This principle has been demonstrated by the commercial …

Among the many plant-based production systems that have been developed for
pharmaceutical proteins, seeds have the useful advantage of accumulating proteins in a …

The evolution of the seed system provides enormous adaptability to the gymnosperms and
angiosperms, because of the properties of dormancy, nutrient storage and seedling vigour …

Transgenic plants are showing considerable potential for the economic production of
proteins, with a few already being marketed. Recent clinical trials of pharmaceuticals …

Plants have been identified as promising expression systems for commercial production of
vaccine antigens. In phase I clinical trials several plant-derived vaccine antigens have been …

Many of our 'small-molecule-drugs' are natural products from plants, or are synthetic
compounds based on molecules found naturally in plants. However, the vast majority of the …

The potential of plant cells to produce functional recombinantantibodies has been
demonstrated in a number of different plant systems. Wepresent a comparative study of a …

Plants are attractive expression systems for the economic production of recombinant
proteins. Among the different plant-based systems, plant seed is the leading platform and …