Plant derived vaccine - Edible vaccine

Literature Review from the year 2014 in the subject Biology - Botany, , course: post doctoral, language: English, abstract: Biotechnologists in recent years have come up with a new concept. This new concept is about edible vaccine. Edible vaccines are composed of antigenic proteins and do not contain pathogenic genes (because obviously they use attenuated strains). Thus, they have no way of establishing infection and safety is assured. Edible vaccines hold great promise as a cost-effective, easy-to-administer, easy-to-store, fail-safe and socioculturally readily acceptable vaccine delivery system, especially for the poor developing countries. It involves introduction of selected desired genes into plants and then inducing these altered plants to manufacture the encoded proteins. Resistance to genetically modified foods may affect the future of edible vaccines. This Review article include many aspects related to plant derived vaccine like Molecular farming, Process of development of plant derived vaccines,Mechanism of action.recent research regarding development of edible vaccines against cholera, malaria, Hepatites B, rabies etc.The review article gives a overall picture of Plant derived vaccine

Dr Pratibha Chaturvedi is Ph D from Rajasthan University.She has vast Post Doctoral work experience of over 14years in the field of plant Biotechnology and Biochemistry. She has to her credit 4 books on Medicinal plants, more than 35 Research papers published in various research journals of national and international repute. Her work has been awarded by several reputed organizations. A women scientist awardee (Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, New delhi) has main interest in Plant Biotechnology, Natural Products, Analytical plant Biochemistry, Proteomics, In vitro enhancement of Secondary metabolites, Plant Physiology, Virology and Animal cell culture etc. A life member of Indian Science congress, Dr Chaturvedi is recognized teacher of Mumbai University and Tibdewal University, Rajasthan for Ph D degree. She is also a member of editorial board in pubmed and other international journals.