COULD THE COVID-19 VACINE COME FROM THE PLANT WORLD

  In recent years, the great potential of plants in the production of vaccines has been highlighted (Paul, M .; Ma, JK Plant-made pharmaceuticals: Leading products and production platforms. Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem. 2011, 58, 58–67). Several reports in the last two decades have enough evidence to prove that the plant produced biopharmaceuticals are as effective as the mammalian cell-based proteins and also elicit potent neutralizing antibodies, or shown therapeutic effects against the particular pathogen or infection (Daniell, H.; Rai, V.; Xiao, Y. Cold chain and virus-free oral polio booster vaccine made in lettuce chloroplasts confers protection against all three poliovirus serotypes. Plant Biotechnol. J. 2019, 17, 1357–1368). Research groups and multinationals are looking to produce an experimental plant-based vaccine for COVID-19. Will this be the way to bring the world out of this pandemic?

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