Frontiers research topic - Engineering the plant biofactory for the production of biologics and small-molecule medicines
"Molecular Farming” was a term coined in reference to agricultural applications in that major crops like maize and tobacco were originally used for pharma applications.
It was since these early studies on plant gene transfer that the scientific community interpreted the technology not only for improving plant performance, as an extension of the plant breeding concept but rather to produce new products, to use the plant as a biofactory for novel designed molecules.