Molecular Farming for Future Sustainable Crop Production
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 282
Special Issue Editor
Interests: genomic and transcriptomics approaches to plant breeding; genetics of abiotic and biotic stress in plants; precision phenotyping within the concept of climate smart breeding; molecular selection markers in plant breeding; molecular detection of plant pathogens; development of tools for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 mutants
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Modern plant biotechnology has shown that plants are new potential producers of pharmaceutical proteins, including vaccines, antibodies, blood substitutes and other pharmaceutical substances, as well as industrial enzymes and various metabolites. This opens up new possibilities, for the diversification of agricultural production and molecular farming is likely to play an important role in the future of sustainable agricultural production.
The term Molecular Farming refers to the production of pharmaceutically important proteins or other industrially important proteins/metabolites in plants. The main topics of this Special Issue will be focused on: plants as a production system for recombinant pharmaceutical and industrial proteins; identification of genes of interest, gene manipulation and production of transgenic plants; gene editing and other tools for plant improving; enhancing the production of the pharmaceuticals naturally produced in plants and engineering the biosynthetic pathways; production platforms for plant-made pharmaceuticals (PMPs), plant-made vaccines (PMVs) and other proteins/metabolites; benefits and drawbacks of the major types of plant cultivation (open-field, greenhouse, and vertical farm); use of "waste" plant biomass, by-products after PMP extraction, bioenergy use of plant biomass; bio-safety regulation and risk-management, development of biological containment technologies.
Prof. Dr. Vladislav Čurn
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- transgenic plants
- recombinant proteins
- biosynthetic pathways engineering
- plant-made pharmaceuticals
- plant-made vaccines
- green factories
- bio-safety regulations
