Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0063205

Zusammenfassung

Recombinant proteins are widely used for industrial, nutritional as well as and medical applications and their production has traditionally relied on bacteria, yeast or cell cultures. Besides technological difficulties in cultivation, such cultures need expensive growth media and special care to avoid contamination. As plants use light as energy and carbon dioxide as carbon source, they are easier and more cost effective to grow. Therefore the vision of pharmaceuticals produced in plants, grown in a simple green house, is inspiring and suggests plants to be one of the most promising a...