We are continually exploring innovative and advanced techniques in order to provide plant biotechnology products to various markets with minimal risk. Some of our efforts include:
Ethanol – Production of a low cost supply of cellulases and ligninases used in the production of ethanol from cellulose along with other potential proteins that can act synergistically with cellulase
Feed enzymes – Production of cellulase, ligninases, proteases and other enzymes that can enhance the digestibility of feedstocks by incorporating them directly into the food and feed
Oral vaccines –Animal and human subunit vaccines that can be produced in plants and orally administered
Sweeteners - Development of a high-intensity natural sweetener, brazzein
Protein products – A variety of pharmaceuticals proteins that are difficult to express in other systems such as aprotinin,trypsin,etc...
Technology – Developing methods that confer high levels of protein expression and specificity as well as developing alternative plant selectable and scoreable markers