Their nutritious, compact tubers may make potatoes a sought-after foodstuff, but to PhytaGenics Inc. , the vines are where the action is. The company is using transgenic technology to produce high-value pharmaceutical proteins and bulk enzymes in the leaves of potato plants as well as other species, under greenhouse conditions.
Transgenic technology, using either animals or plants as bioreactors, addresses two major issues in the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals. The first...
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