Chloroplasts play a crucial role in sustaining life on earth. The availability of over 800
sequenced chloroplast genomes from a variety of land plants has enhanced our …

Free‐living cyanobacteria were entrapped by eukaryotic cells~ 2 billion years ago, ultimately
giving rise to chloroplasts. After a century of debate, the presence of chloroplast DNA was …

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 …

The small bacterial-type genome of the plastid (chloroplast) can be engineered by genetic
transformation, generating cells and plants with transgenic plastid genomes, also referred to …

Microalgae comprise a biodiverse group of photosynthetic organisms that reside in water
sources and sediments. The green microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii was adopted as …

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

This book has been written to meet the needs of students for biotechnology courses at
various levels of undergraduate and graduate studies. This book covers all the important …

Plant cells are ideal bioreactors for the production and oral delivery of vaccines and
biopharmaceuticals, eliminating the need for expensive fermentation, purification, cold …

Plant molecular farming (PMF) is a new branch of plant biotechnology, where plants are
engineered to produce recombinant pharmaceutical and industrial proteins in large …