Expression systems in plants
“Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology” ― Ryan Bethencourt 
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. -Leon Kass 
Domesticated biotechnology, once it gets into the hands of housewives and children, will give us an explosion of diversity of new living creatures … New lineages will proliferate to replace those that monoculture farming and deforestation have destroyed. Designing genomes will be a personal thing, a new art form as creative as painting or sculpture. Few of the new creations will be masterpieces, but a great many will bring joy to their creators and variety to our fauna and flora. — Freeman Dyson 
Yeast is a machine. — Max Delbrück 
“The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing”.-Albert Einstein
Useful keywords
Algae, Chloroplasts, Agrobacterium, transient and stable expression, transgenes, viruses
What you already know about plant protein expression?
Which are the major challenges? Any personal experiences with plant expression systems you would like to share?
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