Plant Expression Platform for the Production of Recombinant Pharmaceutical Proteins

Plant Molecular Farming is a recent emerging field which relies on plant biotechnology and recombinant DNA techniques to produce recombinant proteins in plants. In this review, we describe the importance of plants for recombinant protein production for pharmaceutical and therapeutic purposes. This review also describes the importance of plants as an alternative expression system for the production of recombinant antigens and monoclonal antibodies with the purpose to develop cheap and safe vaccines against infectious diseases. Apart from this, economics, scalability and challenges of plant made therapeutics are discussed.