Table of Contents

Preface.- Contributors.- 1. Molecular Farming in Plants: an Overview; Shengwu Ma, Aiming Wang.- 2. Production of Foreign Proteins in Transgenic Plants; Shengwu Ma.- 3. Molecular Farming Using Bioreactor-based Plant Cell Suspension Cultures for Recombinant Protein Production; Ting-Kuo Huang, Karen A. McDonald.- 4. Chloroplast-derived Therapeutic and Prophylactic Vaccines; James S. New, Donevan Westerveld, Henry Daniell.- 5. Seed Expression Systems for Molecular Farming; Allison R. Kermode.- 6. Algae: an Alternative to the Higher Plant System in Gene Farming; Christoph Griesbeck, Anna Kirchmayr.- 7. The Production of Vaccines and Therapeutic Antibodies in Plants; Richard M. Twyman, Stefan Schillberg, Rainer Fischer.- 8. Production of Industrial Proteins in Plants; Elizabeth E. Hood, Deborah Vicuna Requesens.- 9. Transient Expression Using Agro-infiltration and Its Applications in Molecular Farming; Rima Menassa, Adil Ahmad, Jussi Joensuu.- 10. Plant Virus-mediated Expression in Molecular Farming; Aiming Wang.- 11. Downstream Processing of Transgenic Plant Systems: Protein Recovery and Purification Strategies; Lisa R. Wilken, Zivko L. Nikolov.- 12. Biosafety of Molecular Farming in Genetically Modified Plants; Didier Breyer et al.- Index.