Here, authors from academia and industry provide an exciting overview of current production technologies and the fascinating possibilities for future applications. Topics include chloroplast-derived antibodies, biopharmaceuticals and edible vaccines, production of antibodies in plants and plant cell suspension cultures, production of spider silk proteins in plants, and glycosylation of plant produced proteins. The whole is rounded off by chapters on the demands and expectations made on molecular farming by pharmaceutical corporations and the choice of crop species in improving recombinant protein levels. Of interest to biotechnologists, gene technologists, molecular biologists and protein biochemists in university as well as the biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries.
- ISBN10 6610520755
- ISBN13 9786610520756
- Publish Date 1 January 2005 (first published 14 September 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wiley Vch
- Format eBook
- Pages 337
- Language English