title: Vaccines by agriculture.
abstract: Plants are very useful sources of small-molecular-weight drugs, but new methods that use plant viruses and recombinant gene expression systems offer the possibility of producing subunit vaccines and other therapeutic proteins and peptides from plants too.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Featherstone
mesh_terms: D017798:Comovirus / Q000235:genetics; D023082:Defensins; D005638:Fruit / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D010942:Plant Viruses / Q000235:genetics*; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017863:Potexvirus / Q000235:genetics; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D011198:Solanum tuberosum / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic / Q000096:biosynthesis*
chemical_list: D023082:Defensins; D010940:Plant Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D014614:Vaccines, Synthetic