Plant Viral Vectors [Hardcover]

In this volume, the authors provide an excellent overview of how far the plant viral vector field has come. The discipline is no longer exclusively in the domain of academicsthere is a small, but growing number of small biotechnology companies that exploit plant viruses as the platform for commercial innovation in crop improvement, industrial product manufacturing, and human and veterinary health care.

This wide-ranging review shows how far our understanding of plant viral vectors has come, with experts in vectorology contributing chapters on their work applying the science to cutting-edge techniques in genetics, nanotechnology, and other fields.

Preface.- A personal history of virus-based vector construction by William O. Dawson.- Virus-derived ssDNA vectors for the expression of foreign proteins in plants by Edward P. Rybicki and Darrin P. Martin.- Plant Viral Epitope Display Systems for Vaccine Development by Denis Leclerc.- Applications of plant viruses in bionanotechnology by George P. Lomonossoff and David J. Evans.- Milestones in the development and applications of plant virus vector as gene silencing platforms.- by Christophe Lacomme.- Emerging Antibody-based Products by Kevin J. Whaley, Josh Morton, Steve Hume, Ernie Hiatt, Barry Bratcher, Victor Klimyuk, Andrew Hiatt, Michael Pauly, and Larry Zeitlin.- Production of Recombinant Antigens and Antibodies in Nicotiana benthamiana Using magnifection Technology: GMP-Compliant Facilities for Small-and Large-Scale Manufacturing by Victor Klimyuk, Gregory Pogue, Stefan Herz, John Butler, and Hugh Haydon.- Plant viral vectors for delivery by Agrobacterium by Yuri Y. Gleba, Daniel Tus? and Anatoli Giritch.- Subject index.

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