Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible or communicable diseases, are caused by
pathogens or parasites that spread in communities by direct contact with infected individuals …

Plants provide not only food and feed, but also herbal medicines and various raw materials
for industry. Moreover, plants can be green factories producing high value bioproducts such …

The plastid genome (plastome) has proved a valuable source of data for evaluating
evolutionary relationships among angiosperms. Through basic and applied approaches …

When grown for energy production instead for smoking, tobacco can generate a large
amount of inexpensive biomass more efficiently than almost any other agricultural crop …

Transgene expression from the plant's plastid genome represents a promising strategy in
molecular farming because of the plastid's potential to accumulate foreign proteins to high …

Highlights•Plastid engineering allows high-level transgene expression and improves
containment.•Chloroplast transgenes can be moved horizontally between species.•Chimeric …

The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has become an invaluable model
system in plant biology. There is also considerable interest in developing this microalga into …

Infectious diseases represent a continuously growing menace that has severe impact on
health of the people worldwide, particularly in the developing countries. Therefore, novel …

An optimized genetic construct for plastid transformation of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) for
the production of the renewable, biodegradable plastic polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) was …

Plants have been recognized as a promising production platform for recombinant
pharmaceutical proteins. The human immunodeficiency virus Gag (Pr55 gag) structural …