Transgenic plants expressing vaccine antigens can be used to tackle autoimmune disease like diabetes. Insulin dependent diabetes melites is an autoimmune disease resulted in the destruction of insulin producing pancreatic cells. Disease is triggered by involvement of both humoral and cell mediated immunity. The type I diabetes by autoimmunity is due to the inadvert attack on insulin producing cells by [...]
The concept of edible vaccines stem from Charles Arntzen of Texas University, USA, when he saw a mother offering a piece of banana to a crying baby. With the advent of introducing gene into the plants, he then mooted the idea that food could be genetically altered to produce vaccine in their edible parts, which could then be eaten to [...]
The global production of enzyme reached more than $US 1.8 billion per annum. Although contribution of plant biotechnology in enzyme production is meagre but there is every potential to increase in large scale. The first commercially produced enzymes in plants are avidin and β-glucoronidase. They were produced in transgenic maize. Following success, production of several of these industrially important enzymes [...]