Editing Vaccine (section)

===Plants as bioreactors for vaccine production===
The idea of vaccine production via [[transgenic plants]] was identified as early as 2003. Plants such as [[tobacco]], [[potato]], [[tomato]], and [[banana]] can have genes inserted that cause them to produce vaccines usable for humans.<ref name="pmid12531364">{{cite journal | vauthors = Sala F, Manuela Rigano M, Barbante A, Basso B, Walmsley AM, Castiglione S | title = Vaccine antigen production in transgenic plants: strategies, gene constructs and perspectives | journal = Vaccine | volume = 21 | issue = 7–8 | pages = 803–808 | date = January 2003 | pmid = 12531364 | doi = 10.1016/s0264-410x(02)00603-5 }}</ref> In 2005, bananas were developed that produce a human vaccine against [[hepatitis B]].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Kumar GB, Ganapathi TR, Revathi CJ, Srinivas L, Bapat VA | title = Expression of hepatitis B surface antigen in transgenic banana plants | journal = Planta | volume = 222 | issue = 3 | pages = 484–493 | date = October 2005 | pmid = 15918027 | doi = 10.1007/s00425-005-1556-y | bibcode = 2005Plant.222..484K | s2cid = 23987319 }}</ref>