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...

Using agro-infiltration technique, we have transiently expressed human Growth Hormone (hGH) in tobacco(Nicotiana tobacum), potato (Solanum tuberosum) and lettuce (Lactuca sativa) leaves. Out of three differentinoculation times used for infiltration in our study, it was seen that highest level of hGH expression wasachieved when leaves were infiltrated for 35 min. The presence o...

In the future the Mallee is going to be hot and dry. Farming in the Mallee is going to be very profitable sometimes, middling profitable in some years and not profitable at all at times as has always been the case. In 10 years time there will be less Mallee farmers; they will be farming a little differently to now; and most will earn a good living. The scale of operations will be greater. The r...

Plant molecular farming (PMF) has been promoted since the 1990s as a rapid, cost-effective and (most of all) safe alternative to cultivation bacteria or animal cells for production biopharmaceutical proteins. Numerous plant species have investigated broad range protein-based drug candidates. The inherent safety these products is frequently highlighted an advantage PMF because viruses do not rep...

The growth of organic farming practices in the last few decades is continuing to stimulate the international debate about this alternative food market. As a p art of a PhD project r esearch about embeddedness in Alternative Food Networks (AFNs), this paper focuses on the promotional aspects of organic farms websites from the Madrid region. As a theoretical tool, some knowledge categories drawn ...