Here are a couple reviews that target our topic for this weeks lecture (PowerPoint figs) on

Plants as factories or Bio-reactors.

 

Please read this review

Plant-based production of biopharmaceuticals

Rainer Fischer 1, 2, Eva Stoger 1, Stefan Schillberg 2, Paul Christou 2 and Richard M Twyman E-mail The Corresponding Author, 3

 

And choose some references from this paper or new papers that cite it to follow up on.  You will present and write a short 1-2 page review of the specific technology and discuss it potential application as well as safty/regulation issues.

 

Other papers in this issue (note other prominent authors on other topics)

 

Plant biotechnology: Molecular farming and metabolic engineering promise a new generation of high-tech crops EDITORIAL
Pages 149-151
Pal Maliga and Ian Graham
SummaryPlus | Full Text + Links | PDF (67 K)

 

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Plant-based production of biopharmaceuticals REVIEW ARTICLE
Pages 152-158
Rainer Fischer , Eva Stoger , Stefan Schillberg , Paul Christou and Richard M Twyman
SummaryPlus | Full Text + Links | PDF (145 K)

 

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Prospects for molecular farming in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii REVIEW ARTICLE
Pages 159-165
Scott E Franklin and Stephen P Mayfield
SummaryPlus | Full Text + Links | PDF (200 K)

 

12.

The moss bioreactor REVIEW ARTICLE
Pages 166-170
Eva L Decker and Ralf Reski
SummaryPlus | Full Text + Links | PDF (161 K)

 

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Posttranslational modification of therapeutic proteins in plants REVIEW ARTICLE
Pages 171-181
Véronique Gomord and Loïc Faye
SummaryPlus | Full Text + Links | PDF (2527 K)

 

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Engineering viral expression vectors for plants: the ‘full virus’ and the ‘deconstructed virus’ strategies REVIEW ARTICLE
Pages 182-188
Yuri Gleba , Sylvestre Marillonnet and Victor Klimyuk
SummaryPlus | Full Text + Links | PDF (176 K)

 

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Safe and acceptable strategies for producing foreign molecules in plants REVIEW ARTICLE
Pages 189-195
Peter N Mascia and Richard B Flavell
SummaryPlus | Full Text + Links | PDF (137 K)

 

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This would be a good paper to cover

Nature Biotechnology  17, 466 - 469 (1999)
doi:10.1038/8643

Production of recombinant proteins in plant root exudates

Nikolai V. Borisjuk1, 4, Ludmyla G. Borisjuk1, 4, Sithes Logendra1, Frank Petersen2, Yuri Gleba3 & Ilya Raskin1

 

 

 

A specific new case

Plants as bioreactors: A comparative study suggests that Medicago truncatula is a promising production system

Rita Abranchesa, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Sylvain Marcelb, Elsa Arcalisb, Friedrich Altmannc, Pedro Fevereirod, e and Eva Stogerb