Plant biopharming is defined as the farming of transgenic plants genetically modified to produce “humanised” pharmaceutical substances for use in humans.
Plant biopharming is defined here as the farming of transgenic plants genetically modified to produce “humanised” pharmaceutical substances for use in humans.
This was first attempted in 17th century (Winslow et al., 1998) also called molecular farming, pharming, or biopharming.
Biopharming aims to replace very expensive bioreactors (upstream process) by the pharmaceutical industry used for producing therapeutic molecules.
The most common plants currently being researched for biopharming include corn, soybeans, rice, tobacco, and potatoes.
Plant biopharming is defined here as the farming of transgenic plants genetically modified to produce “humanised” pharmaceutical substances for use in humans.
This was first attempted in 17th century (Winslow et al., 1998) also called molecular farming, pharming, or biopharming.
Biopharming aims to replace very expensive bioreactors (upstream process) by the pharmaceutical industry used for producing therapeutic molecules.
The most common plants currently being researched for biopharming include corn, soybeans, rice, tobacco, and potatoes.
Terminator gene technology refers to plants that have been genetically modified to render sterile seeds at harvest.
Genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs) are the name given to experimental methods, described in a series of recent patent applications and providing specific genetic switch mechanisms that restrict the unauthorized use of genetic material (FAO, 2001a) by hampering reproduction (variety-specific V-GURT) or the expression of a trait (trait-specific T-GURT) in a genetically modified (GM) plant.
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Gene-regulatory information that is not expressed in DNA sequences but transmitted from one generation (of cells or organisms) to the next
Coined by embryologist C. H. Waddington in 1942.
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Biopharming is an upcoming research field related with genetic engineering and biotechnology which is ensuring the future health of the humanity while letting us making so many therapeutics. Also, it let us consume some vaccines as an oral food source, showing some perfect alternative for the developing countries. However, this is yet to be argued, tested and confirmed for its biosafety for both human and to nature.
molecular farming is the production of pharmaceutically important proteins in plants.Is going to be the next destination for agriculture biotechnology. By this method, we can provide medicines for all at an affordable price.
A new era of genomics for plant science research has opened due the complete genome sequencing projects of Arabidopsis thaliana and rice. The sequence information available in public database has highlighted the need to develop genome scale reverse genetic strategies for functional analysis (Till et al., 2003). As most of the phenotypes are obscure, the forward genetics can hardly meet the demand of a high throughput and large-scale survey of gene functions. Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genome TILLING is a general reverse genetic technique that combines chemical mutagenesis with PCR based screening to identity point mutations in regions of interest (McCallum et al., 2000). This strategy works with a mismatch-specific endonuclease to detect induced or natural DNA polymorphisms in genes of interest. A newly developed general reverse genetic strategy helps to locate an allelic series of induced point mutations in genes of interest. It allows the rapid and inexpensive detection of induced point mutations in populations of physically or chemically mutagenized individuals. To create an induced population with the use of physical/chemical mutagens is the first prerequisite for TILLING approach. Most of the plant species are compatible with this technique due to their self-fertilized nature and the seeds produced by these plants can be stored for long periods of time (Borevitz et al., 2003). The seeds are treated with mutagens and raised to harvest M1 plants, which are consequently, self-fertilized to raise the M2 population. DNA extracted from M2 plants is used in mutational screening (Colbert et al., 2001). To avoid mixing of the same mutation only one M2 plant from each M1 is used for DNA extraction (Till et al., 2007). The M3 seeds produce by selfing the M2 progeny can be well preserved for long term storage. Ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) has been extensively used as a chemical mutagen in TILLING studies in plants to generate mutant populations, although other mutagens can be effective. EMS produces transitional mutations (G/C, A/T) by alkylating G residues which pairs with T instead of the conservative base pairing with C (Nagy et al., 2003). It is a constructive approach for users to attempt a range of chemical mutagens to assess the lethality and sterility on germinal tissue before creating large mutant populations.
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Terminator gene technology refers to plants that have been genetically modified to render sterile seeds at harvest.
Genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs) are the name given to experimental methods, described in a series of recent patent applications and providing specific genetic switch mechanisms that restrict the unauthorized use of genetic material (FAO, 2001a) by hampering reproduction (variety-specific V-GURT) or the expression of a trait (trait-specific T-GURT) in a genetically modified (GM) plant.
Epigenetics and it's relevance in crop improvementShamlyGupta
Epigenetics means ‘above’ or ‘on top of genetics’
A study of the changes in gene expression that are mitotically and/or meiotically heritable and do not involve a change in the DNA sequence
Gene-regulatory information that is not expressed in DNA sequences but transmitted from one generation (of cells or organisms) to the next
Coined by embryologist C. H. Waddington in 1942.
Plant epigenetic memory in plant growth behavior and stress response. Sally M...CIAT
Speaker: Sally Mackenzie, Lloyd and Dottie Huck Chair for Functional Genomics, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University. Fellow in the American Society of Plant Biologists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Event: Robert D. Havener Seminar on “Innovations for Crop Productivity”.
http://ciat.cgiar.org/event/robert-d-havener-seminar-on-innovations-for-crop-productivity/
Biopharming is an upcoming research field related with genetic engineering and biotechnology which is ensuring the future health of the humanity while letting us making so many therapeutics. Also, it let us consume some vaccines as an oral food source, showing some perfect alternative for the developing countries. However, this is yet to be argued, tested and confirmed for its biosafety for both human and to nature.
molecular farming is the production of pharmaceutically important proteins in plants.Is going to be the next destination for agriculture biotechnology. By this method, we can provide medicines for all at an affordable price.
A new era of genomics for plant science research has opened due the complete genome sequencing projects of Arabidopsis thaliana and rice. The sequence information available in public database has highlighted the need to develop genome scale reverse genetic strategies for functional analysis (Till et al., 2003). As most of the phenotypes are obscure, the forward genetics can hardly meet the demand of a high throughput and large-scale survey of gene functions. Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genome TILLING is a general reverse genetic technique that combines chemical mutagenesis with PCR based screening to identity point mutations in regions of interest (McCallum et al., 2000). This strategy works with a mismatch-specific endonuclease to detect induced or natural DNA polymorphisms in genes of interest. A newly developed general reverse genetic strategy helps to locate an allelic series of induced point mutations in genes of interest. It allows the rapid and inexpensive detection of induced point mutations in populations of physically or chemically mutagenized individuals. To create an induced population with the use of physical/chemical mutagens is the first prerequisite for TILLING approach. Most of the plant species are compatible with this technique due to their self-fertilized nature and the seeds produced by these plants can be stored for long periods of time (Borevitz et al., 2003). The seeds are treated with mutagens and raised to harvest M1 plants, which are consequently, self-fertilized to raise the M2 population. DNA extracted from M2 plants is used in mutational screening (Colbert et al., 2001). To avoid mixing of the same mutation only one M2 plant from each M1 is used for DNA extraction (Till et al., 2007). The M3 seeds produce by selfing the M2 progeny can be well preserved for long term storage. Ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) has been extensively used as a chemical mutagen in TILLING studies in plants to generate mutant populations, although other mutagens can be effective. EMS produces transitional mutations (G/C, A/T) by alkylating G residues which pairs with T instead of the conservative base pairing with C (Nagy et al., 2003). It is a constructive approach for users to attempt a range of chemical mutagens to assess the lethality and sterility on germinal tissue before creating large mutant populations.
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2. Plant Biopharming ?
Plant biopharming is defined as the farming of
transgenic plants genetically modified to produce
“humanised” pharmaceutical substances for use in
humans. The growing of crops that have been
genetically modified to produce pharmaceutical
compounds for use by humans: “common crop plants
such as corn and tobacco increasingly being
programmed with recombinant DNA techniques to
produce high-value-added pharmaceuticals, a process
dubbed ‘biopharming’. The plants are harvested and
the drug is then extracted and purified” (Miller 2003:
480).
3. Conti..
Biopharming is one of several methods that can be used to
produce the class of drugs known as biopharmaceuticals:
“these drugs, known as biologics, include any protein, virus,
therapeutic serum, vaccine and blood component” (Elbehri
2005: 18).
Biopharming is also known as “molecular farming”.
Molecular farming is the production of pharmaceutically
important and commercially valuable proteins in plants
(Franken et al., 1997).
The most common plants currently being researched for
biopharming include corn, soybeans, rice, tobacco, and
potatoes (see Table 1), modified to produce the substance,
usually a protein, vitamins, amino acids in their fruit, leaves,
seeds or tubers, etc.
4.
5. Brief History
Year Development Reference
1986 First plant -derived recombinant
therapeutic protein- human GH in
tobacco & sunflower
A. Barta, D. Thompson et al.,
1989 First plant -derived recombinant
antibody –full-sized IgG in
tobacco.
A. Hiatt, K. Bowdish
1990 First native human protein
produced in plants –human serum
albumin in tobacco & potato.
P. C. Sijmons et al.
1992 First plant derived vaccine
candidate –hepatitis B virus
surface antigen in tobacco
H. S. Meson, D. M. Lam
1995 Secretory IgA produced in tobacco. J. K. Ma, A. Hiatt, M. Hein et
al.
1996 First plant derived protein polymer-
artificial elastin in tobacco
X. Zhang, D. W. Urry, H.
Daniel
6. Brief History
Year Development Reference
1997 First clinical trial using recombinant
bacterial antigen delivered in a
transgenic potato
C. O. Tacket et al.
1997 Commercial production of avidin
in maize
E. E. Hood et al.
2000 Human GH produced in tobacco
chloroplast
J. M. Staub et al.
2003 Expression and assembly of a
functional antibody
in algae.
S. P. Mayfield, S. E. Franklin
et al.
2003 Commercial production of bovine
trypsin in maize.
S. L. Woodard et al.
7. Concept of Biopharming
The concept of biopharming is not new. Genetic modification
has been applied to plants for decades in order to improve
their nutritional value and agronomic traits (yield, pest and
drought resistance, etc.).
The production of high value added substances through gene
manipulation is a logical, straight forward extension.
The energy for product synthesis comes from the sun, and
the primary raw materials are water and carbon dioxide and if
it becomes necessary to expand production, it is much easier
to plant a few additional hectares than to build a new bricks
and mortar manufacturing facility.
8. Conti..
Another major advantage is that vaccines produced in this
way will be designed to be heat stable so that no
refrigeration chain from manufacturer to patient will be
required.
This would have a great application in developing
countries, especially in the tropics and throughout Asia and
Africa.
Globally, several companies are involved in biopharming,
about half have products in clinical trials.
The spectrum of products is broad, ranging from the
prevention of tooth decay and the common cold to
treatments for cancer and cystic fibrosis.
9. • Biopharming offers tremendous advantages over
traditional methods for producing pharmaceuticals.
There is great potential for reducing the costs of
production.
• Major drivers for the development of biopharming
internationally are its potential to lower the costs of drug
production, the greater ease of upscaling and
downscaling production, an anticipated shortage of
manufacturing capacity using other production methods,
the potential to address some of the limitations of other
production methods, and the desire to strengthen or
evade patent restrictions.
Conti..
10. Why Plants ?
According to Horn et al., 2004
Significantly lower production costs than with transgenic
animals, fermentation or bioreactors;
Infrastructure and expertise already exists for the planting,
harvesting and processing of plant material;
Plants do not contain known human pathogens (such as
virions, etc.) That could contaminate the final product;
Plant cells can direct proteins to environments that reduce
degradation and therefore increase stability.
11. Some of Plants Used for Biopharmaceutical
Production
Sr. No. Category Plants used
1 Model plant Arabidopsis thaliana
2 Leafy crops Tobacco, lettuce, alfalfa, clover
3 Cereals Maize, rice, wheat, barley
4 Legumes Soybean, pea, pigeon pea
5 Fruits and vegetables Potato, carrot, tomato, banana
6 Oil crops Oilseed Rape Seed, Camelina sativa
7 Simple plants Lemna sp. Physcomitrella patens,
Marchantia polymorpha, Chlamidomonas
reinhardtii
Sibila Jelaska et al. 2005
12. Bio-pharmed crops
Drug/Chemical Use Test Crop
Laccase Textiles, Adhesives Corn
Folic acid Vitamin Tomatoes
Erythropoeitin Anemia Tobacco
Essential fatty acids Cell membrane production Soybeans
SARS vaccine Immunization Tomato
Vaccine against pollen allergies Immunization Rice
Traveler’s and other Diarrheas Immunization/
Drug
Rice, Potatoes
and Corn
Insulin Treatment of Diabetes Safflower
Insulin-like Growth Factors Diabetes, Growth,
Carcinogen
Rice
13.
14.
15.
16. Recombinant Proteins Expressed in Plants
According to Horn et al., 2004
Parental Therapeutics and Pharmaceutical
Intermediates
Antibody in plants
Edible Vaccines
Industrial proteins
17.
18.
19.
20. Edible vaccine
• Concept of edible vaccine got impetus after expression of
hepatitis B surface antigen in tobacco plants (Mason et
al., 1992)
• The first reported edible vaccine was a surface protein
from streptococcus expressed in tobacco leaves. (Mason
and Arntzen, 1995)
21. Why to Choose Plants for Vaccines?
No Ethical Issues
Ability to Express Combined
Transgenes
By Sexual Crossing
Flexible Production Size,
Low Cost
Large Scale Production in
Biotech-Corps / Agriculture
Easy to Taken, No Phobia to
Injection
Easy Transport
as Fruits, Leaves and
Seeds, More Viability
Correct Folding and
Modification of Proteins in ER
Low Contamination
Risk by Bacterial Enzymes, Toxins,
Fungus and Viruses
22.
23.
24. Examples of edible vaccines
Vaccines Vector used Disease /conditions
for which it is used
Hepatitis B Virus Tobacco, Potato,
Lettuce
Hepatitis B
Norwalk virus Tobacco, Potato Diarrhoea, Nausea,
Rabies virus Tabacco Rabies
Transmissible
gastroenteritis
Corona virus
Tobacco, Maize Gastroenteritis
Rabbit hemorrhagic
disease virus
Potato Hemorrhage
HIV virus Tomato AIDS
Vibrio cholerae Potato Cholera
Neeraj et al. (2008)
25. TRANSGENIC TOMATO
See I lost my
shelf life how can
I improve my
shelf life ?
Look at me they are
making transgenic
tomato so that I can
improve my shelf life.
WOW!!! So excited
35. Golden Rice
Purported to be the solution to the problem of Vitamin A
deficiency in developing countries
Developed in 1999 by Swiss and German scientists, led by
Ingo Potrykus
-Potrykus has accused GM opponents of “crimes against humanity”
Produced by splicing two daffodil and one bacterial gene
into japonica rice, a variety adapted for temperate climates
In 2011, First time plantings in India with Philippines and
Vietnam
But crop not yet adapted to local climates in developing
countries
36. Produces β-carotene, which the body converts into Vitamin
A (in the absence of other nutritional deficiencies - such as
zinc, protein, and fats - and in individuals not suffering from
diarrhea)
Β-carotene is a pro-oxidant, which may be carcinogenic
37. The latest…
• Syngenta Golden Rice - II (20 times more provitamin A)
and GM potatoes recently developed
• Third generation Golden Rice using indica rice being
tested (japonica variety used in other iterations
unpalatable, produced much less vitamin A)
• GE soybeans with omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil) in final
stages of FDA approval (2010)
38. Lowering production costs
A major advantage claimed for producing drugs through plant
biopharming is lower production costs for pharmaceuticals.
Current production methods (fermentation and cell cultures) are
characterised as inefficient, expensive and time-consuming
processes, while biopharming promises significantly lower
infrastructure and operating costs (Elbehri 2005).
Capacity shortage and flexible supply
The increased demand for protein-based drugs; manufacturing
capacity is said to be a major constraint on future supply (Elbehri
2005; Nevitt et al. 2006; Fernandez et al. 2002). According to
Nevitt et al. (2006: 104), “demand for affordable protein-based
therapies has already outpaced production capacity”, and this
pressure on capacity is expected to increase.
Advantage
39. Potential for new and better drugs
biopharming is its potential to produce biopharmaceuticals that cannot be
produced in other ways (Thiel 2004). Dyck et al. (2003: 395) note
problems with other production platforms (bacteria, yeast, and insect,
metazoan and mammalian cells) and suggest that transgenic plants (and
animals) may avoid these problems, thus presumably enabling successful
production of drugs that could not (or would not) otherwise be produced.
According to Ma et al. (2005).
Opportunities for patent-enhancing and patent-busting
producing new medicines, biopharming may be seen instead as a way to
undermine or reinforce patents on existing medicines. Biopharming may
enable companies to “bust” the existing patents of other companies by
developing a new process to produce a substance whose patent is
associated with another method of production. Conversely, biopharming
may enable a company to extend patent protection for a drug by acquiring
a new patent for it based on a new production method.
Conti..
40. Risks, Concerns and Issues
Potential gene flow to weeds or related crops through
pollination or seed contamination (horn et al., 2004).
Pdms accidentally entering the food chain and being
consumed by non-target organisms (breyer et al., 2012).
A major concern for many developing countries is the lack
of bio-safety legislation for genetically modified plants
(salehi, 2012).
41. Health and Environmental Risks of GE Foods
• Allergies and toxicities from new proteins entering the
food supply
• Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome from Showa Denko’s GE-L-tryptophan
supplements in 1980s
FDA covered up
• Bt corn increases sensitivity of mammals to other allergens, increases
levels of cytokines and interleukins involved in various autoimmune
diseases
• Bt corn toxic to caddisflies, a food resource for fish and amphibians
• Bt toxin can affect bee learning, may contribute to colony collapse disorder
• Bt found in blood of 69% of non-pregnant women, 93% of pregnant
women, and 80% of fetuses
• GM peas (with bean gene) cause lung inflammation in mice – trial stopped
• New, allergenic proteins in GE soy in South Korea
42. Secret Monsanto report found that rats fed a diet rich in GM corn
had smaller kidneys and unusually high white blood cell counts
Monsanto’s MON 863 YieldGard Rootworm (GM) Maize damages
rats’ livers and kidneys
-Bt eggplant shows similar damage
Russian Academy of Sciences report found up to six-fold increase
in death and severe underweight in infants of mothers fed GM soy
Austrian study shows impaired fertility in mice fed GM maize
Bt-cotton reported to cause skin and respiratory illnesses/allergies
in workers in Philippines
Altered nutritional value of foodstuffs
Transfer of antibiotic resistance genes into intestinal bacteria or
other organisms, contributing to antibiotic resistance in human
pathogens
Horizontal gene transfer of gene inserted into GM soy to DNA of
human gut bacteria
-Soy allergies increased by 50% after introduction of GM soy into the UK
43. Allergenicity in India
In India, hundreds of laborers picking cotton and working in cotton ginning
factories developed allergic reactions when handling the BT cotton. This didn’t
happen with the non-Bt varieties. [Ashish Gupta et. al., “Impact of Bt Cotton on
Farmers’ Health (in Barwani and Dhar District of Madhya Pradesh),”
Investigation Report, Oct–Dec 2005]
Hospital records: “ Show that victims of itching have increased massively this
year, and all of them are related to BT cotton farming.” [The Sunday Indian,
10/26/08]
Itching all over the body,
eruptions, wounds,
discoloration
44. • Pests now becoming resistant to Bt
• Meta-analysis of Bt corn and cotton (2013):
• 5/13 major pests resistant (compared with 1 in 2005)
• Bt cotton destroyed by mealy bug; harvests in India
decline dramatically, contributing to suicides among
farmers
45. Animal data suggest DNA can be taken up intact by
lymphocytes through Peyer’s patches of small intestine
Animal studies show adverse effects on multiple organs,
including tumors, multiple organ damage, and premature
death
Micro RNA and short interfering RNA not destroyed during
digestion, absorbed, can affect gene expression in animals
and humans
46. Herbicide resistance improved crop Weeds related to crop(Same Spp)
Resistance gene transfer to weeds
Super weeds
Can’t destroy using weedicide
Pollination
X
Genetic transfer to Non target species
Super weeds ?
Super Pest ?
47.
48. References
Breyer, D, De Schrin, Gossens, M., Pauwels, K., Heeman, P. (2012) Biosafety of
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