Plants are tamed to function as production factories of pharmaceuticals.
Recently, several pharmaceuticals, including therapeutics, drugs, vaccines, vitamins,
antibiotics, nutraceuticals, and diagnostic molecules, have been produced through these
green factories. Compared with conventional systems, for example, bacterial, yeast,
fungal, and mammalian cell cultures, plants are accepted as a cost-effective source of
pharmaceuticals products. Considering plants as a versatile, cost-effective, and robust
production platform, the system could be exploited in different ways like plant cell
culture, transient expression and harvesting, and stable transgenics. This chapter
highlights the importance and potential of molecular pharming with special emphasis
on methodological aspects, proving the suitability of plants as the most appropriate
biopharmaceutical production platform with recent interventions.
Keywords: Biopharmaceuticals, Cell culture, Cost-effective, Plant expression
system, Recent innovations.
