Knowledge Creation on Edible Vaccines

Green revolution vaccines, edible vaccines

Edible vaccines are sub-unit vaccines where the selected genes are introduced into the plants and the transgenic plant is then induced to manufacture the encoded protein. Edible vaccines are mucosal targeted vaccines where stimulation of both systematic and mucosal immune network takes place. Foods under study include potatoes, bananas, lettuce, rice, wheat, soybean, corn and legumes. Edible va...

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Molecular farming of Plant Derived Edible Vaccines

Plant Derived Edible Vaccines Abstract Vaccines have been one of the most farreaching and important public health initiatives of the 20 century. Edible vaccine, in particular, might overcome some of the difficult of production, distribution and delivery associated with traditional vaccine. Transgenic potatoes expressing LT-B were found to induce both serum and secretory antibodies when fed to m...

Edible Vaccines against Poultry Diseases : a Review

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Edible vaccines: current status and future.

Edible vaccines hold great promise as a cost-effective, easy-to-administer, easy-to-store, fail-safe and socioculturally readily acceptable vaccine delivery system, especially for the poor developing countries. It involves introduction of selected desired genes into plants and then inducing these altered plants to manufacture the encoded proteins. Introduced as a concept about a decade ago, it ...