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Plant Molecular Farming: A Marvelous Biotechnological Approach in Agricultural Production

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Plants have several advantages over the system for strategic production of useful biomolecules and proteins. Plant molecular farming is the genetic manipulations of the plants for production of desirable proteins and other useful biomolecules through various biotechnological approaches. Moreover, plants have been recognized as potential and natural sources of pharmaceutical products including various types of biomolecules including vaccines, proteins, antibodies, therapeutic entities, and essential blood substitutes. In addition, mammalian-derived recombinant DNA drugs, plant-derived antibodies, edible vaccines, and useful proteins are advantageous and are free of mammalian viral vector as well as other pathogens related to human. Plant-made biopharmaceuticals are safer, cheaper, can be commercially produced, and easily stored. In this article, we have described several plant diverse systems for the commercial production of useful proteins, enzymes, antibodies, and vaccines with desirable traits. Several advantages as well as disadvantages of the particular system of the plant molecular farming are also discussed. We have also described the product of plant molecular farming currently available in the market on commercial basis.

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  1. Department of Biotechnology and Crop Improvement, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, India

    Abhishek Kumar & Ashutosh Singh

  2. Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, India

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Kumar, A., Singh, A., Singh, A. (2022). Plant Molecular Farming: A Marvelous Biotechnological Approach in Agricultural Production. In: Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Singh, S.S., Trisasongko, B.H., Rani, M. (eds) Agriculture, Livestock Production and Aquaculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93262-6_7

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