Large‐scale Protein Production in Plants: Host Plants, Systems and Expression

Abstract

Originally published in: Molecular Farming. Edited by Rainer Fischer and Stefan Schillberg. Copyright © 2004 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA Weinheim. Print ISBN: 3‐527‐30786‐9 The sections in this article are Introduction Host Species for Molecular Farming Leafy Crops Tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum ) Tobacco ( Nicotiana benthamiana ) Alfalfa ( Medicago sativa ) White clover ( Trifolium repens ) Lettuce ( Lactuca sativa ) Spinach ( Spinacia oleracea ) Lupin ( Lupinus spp .) Dry Seed Crops Maize ( Zea mays ) Rice ( Oryza sativa ) Wheat ( Triticum aestivium ) Barley ( Hordeum vulgare ) Soybean ( Glycine max ) Pea ( Pisum sativum ) Pigeon pea ( Cajanus cajan ) Peanut ( Arachis hypogaea ) Fruit and vegetable crops Potato ( Solanum tuberosum ) Tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum ) Carrot ( Daucus carota ) Banana ( Musa spp.) Oilcrops Rapeseed/Canola ( Brassica napus ) Falseflax ( Camelina sativa ) Safflower ( Carthamus tinctorius ) Unicellular Plants and Aquatic Plants Maintained in Bioreactors Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Physcomitrella patens Duckweed ( Lemna minor ) Non‐cultivated Model Plants Arabidopsis thaliana Expression systems for molecular farming Transgenic plants Transplastomic plants Virus‐infected plants Transiently transformed leaves Hydroponic cultures Hairy roots Shooty teratomas Suspension cell cultures Expression strategies and protein yields Conclusions