Plant Viral Vectors

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 academics-there 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.

List of contents

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 Tusé and Anatoli Giritch.- Subject index.

Summary

Provides an overview of how far the plant viral vectors field has come
Enriches the understanding of the industrialization of plant virology 
Broadens your understanding of plant viruses as the platform for crop improvement, industrial product manufacturing, and human and veterinary health care

Product details

• Assisted by: Gleba (Editor), Gleba (Editor), Yuri Gleba (Editor), Kennet Palmer (Editor), Kenneth Palmer (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9783642408281
• ISBN: 978-3-642-40828-1
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 241 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Illustrations: X, 194 p. 33 illus., 19 illus. in color.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology; Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Microbiology; B, Immunology, Pharmakologie, Pharmacology, Vaccine, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Virology, Vaccines, virus-induced gene silencing, virus-based expression system