Abstract

PLANT MOLECULAR FARMING: MUCH MORE TO KNOW

Anup Mishra, Vikas Mishra*, Pervej Akhter, Roma Agrahari, Wakar Ahmad, Shivangi Khare and Alok Raghav

Abstract

Plant Molecular Farming is an utilization of recombinant DNA technology for the genetic manipulation of plants for the production of proteins and chemicals that are being used for medicinal and commercial purposes. Recently, through 21st Century biotechnology, it is now understood that plants are possibly another wellspring of pharmaceutical proteins including edible vaccines, antibodies, blood substitutes and other helpful compounds. Plants can produce a wide variety of proteins that does not contain any mammalian toxins and infectious agent. They can produce a lot of biomass at a very low cost and require limited facilities. Since plants have for some time been utilized as a source of medicinal compounds, Plant Molecular Farming provides us with an opportunity in which production of compounds such as, antibodies, medicines, vaccines, growth factors, enzymes and recombinant plasma proteins, whose medicinal applications are comprehended at a molecular level. Plant-made pharmaceuticals" [PMPs] are created by genetically modified plants to produced particular compound or component of a bigger compound, generally proteins, which are isolated and purified after harvest. As used here, the terms molecular farming and PMP do exclude normally happening plant products or nutritionally enhanced foods.

Keywords: Molecular farming, Biotechnology, Plant Made Pharmaceuticals [PMPs].