COVID-19 Crisis: How Can Plant Biotechnology Help?

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant public health crisis all over the world. The rapid spreading nature and high mortality rate of COVID-19 places a huge pressure on scientists to develop effective diagnostics and therapeutics to control the pandemic. Some scientists workin...

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Autores principales: Shohag, Md. Jahidul Islam, Khan, Farhana Zerin, Tang, Lin, Wei, Yanyan, He, Zhenli, Yang, Xiaoe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7917634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33673316
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10020352
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author Shohag, Md. Jahidul Islam
Khan, Farhana Zerin
Tang, Lin
Wei, Yanyan
He, Zhenli
Yang, Xiaoe
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description The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant public health crisis all over the world. The rapid spreading nature and high mortality rate of COVID-19 places a huge pressure on scientists to develop effective diagnostics and therapeutics to control the pandemic. Some scientists working on plant biotechnology together with commercial enterprises for the emergency manufacturing of diagnostics and therapeutics have aimed to fulfill the rapid demand for SARS-CoV-2 protein antigen and antibody through a rapid, scalable technology known as transient/stable expression in plants. Plant biotechnology using transient/stable expression offers a rapid solution to address this crisis through the production of low-cost diagnostics, antiviral drugs, immunotherapy, and vaccines. Transient/stable expression technology for manufacturing plant-based biopharmaceuticals is already established at commercial scale. Here, current opinions regarding how plant biotechnology can help fight against COVID-19 through the production of low-cost diagnostics and therapeutics are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-79176342021-03-02 COVID-19 Crisis: How Can Plant Biotechnology Help? Shohag, Md. Jahidul Islam Khan, Farhana Zerin Tang, Lin Wei, Yanyan He, Zhenli Yang, Xiaoe Plants (Basel) Perspective The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant public health crisis all over the world. The rapid spreading nature and high mortality rate of COVID-19 places a huge pressure on scientists to develop effective diagnostics and therapeutics to control the pandemic. Some scientists working on plant biotechnology together with commercial enterprises for the emergency manufacturing of diagnostics and therapeutics have aimed to fulfill the rapid demand for SARS-CoV-2 protein antigen and antibody through a rapid, scalable technology known as transient/stable expression in plants. Plant biotechnology using transient/stable expression offers a rapid solution to address this crisis through the production of low-cost diagnostics, antiviral drugs, immunotherapy, and vaccines. Transient/stable expression technology for manufacturing plant-based biopharmaceuticals is already established at commercial scale. Here, current opinions regarding how plant biotechnology can help fight against COVID-19 through the production of low-cost diagnostics and therapeutics are discussed. MDPI 2021-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7917634/ /pubmed/33673316 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10020352 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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