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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Production of recombinant proteins in plants |
| Participants | Michael Wassenegger (Leader) Katharina Klut Michèle Zwiebel Nora Schwind |
| Period | 2007 - 2009 |
| Description | In order to promote health protection, the subsidy of tobacco production will be discontinued, step by step. To safeguard the future income of the producers, Brussels is currently looking at alternatives. It mainly favours the conversion of tobacco production to other crops. It is, however, questionable whether the production of alternative crops to tobacco can completely compensate for the loss of subsidies. A complete conversion of tobacco production in Rhineland-Palatinate may therefore not be expendient. For this reason, our work aims at utilising tobacco plants for other purpose than the production of cigarettes. Our aim is to develop an innovative strategy which allows a high production rate of economically interesting recombinant pharmaceutical proteins of in tobacco ("bioreactor"). For this purpose, a plant defence mechanism targeting the expression of foreign genes, which has until now severely limited the profitability of plants as bioreactors, shall be inhibited (For further details about the project see AlPlanta-FNR-Tobacco as Bioreactor. |
| Web page | Specific Web page |
| Plants | Nicotiana tabacum |