Udder Disease: Plant BioFactory Ramps Up Relief for Dairy Cows
Published: October 1, 2007
Summary
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are testing a plant-produced, therapeutic protein, which thwarts bacteria that cause inflammatory udder disease in dairy cows. They turned a laboratory-produced plant virus into a delivery vehicle that carries a specific gene. The target gene expresses large quantities of a protein called CD14. When the virus reproduces itself inside plant cells, it g...
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3 de octubre de 2007
The production of that plant to neutralizes E. Coli sounds great, but actually it is known that mastitis is caused by several bacteria, so what about the rest of those microorganisms? Thanks.
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