Paper Details

Name: Monica Mahajan, Nehal, Khushboo Bhardwaj and Tavleen Kaur
Email: monicamahajan1980@gmail.com
Country: India

Year: 2022
Volume: Volume-9, Issue-1 (January-June)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6620675

COVID-19 is the most dangerous and destructive pandemic in human history. Since its outbreak, millions of people worldwide had lost their lives through its rapid spread in over 100 countries. It is officially designated as severe acute respiratory syndrome related corona virus (SARS-CoV-2). Although there were many other related strains in past that causes mild COVID symptoms but this pandemic requires the rapid development of vaccines and medicines for its cure. Out of all technology-based methods, plant-based technologies have proven to be more efficient and promising for combating SARS-CoV-2 and related strains. Plant expression systems can be used for the rapid production of effective medicine and chemicals. Plants can be used as stably transformed plants and transiently-transformed plants. Plants can also be used as oral vaccines for transferring antigens or antibodies (passive immunization) in the human body and in the diagnosis of viral antigen and antibodies as well.