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Plant Viral Vectors
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 375
ISBN/EAN: 9783642408281
Umbreit-Nr.: 5542703
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: x, 194 S., 14 s/w Illustr., 19 farbige Illustr., 1
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Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 11.12.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
- Zusatztext
- In this volume, the authors provide an excellent overview of how far the plant viral vector field has come. The discipline is no longer exclusively in the domain of academics-there is a small, but growing number of small biotechnology companies that exploit plant viruses as the platform for commercial innovation in crop improvement, industrial product manufacturing, and human and veterinary health care.
- Kurztext
- In this volume, the authors provide an excellent overview of how far the plant viral vector field has come. This discipline is no longer exclusively the domain of academics - there is a small, but growing number of small biotechnology companies that exploit plant viruses as a platform for commercial innovation in crop improvement, industrial product manufacturing, and human and veterinary health care. The authors, who work in the plant viral "vectorology" field, have Bill Dawson to thank in some way for their scientific pedigree, and they are honored that he contributed the opening chapter of this volume with the history of plant virus vector development: "A vector is not a virus; it is a device designed to perform a specific function." Other contributors have provided fascinating reviews of how plant viral vectors have been adapted to serve specific functions, from plant gene function discovery to nanotechnology, providing infinitely scalable manufacturing systems valuable for human therapeutics.