Medicago: Perennial proteins

Production of recombinant proteins in plants runs up against skepticism in terms of the ability of plant factories to reproducibly manufacture commercial quantities of peptide. In addition, fears of public animosity toward genetically modified agriculture could bode ill for acceptance of the technology on a broad scale, especially in Europe.

Medicago Inc. believes that it has answered these criticisms with a plant production system that uses alfalfa, a perennial plant that can reproduce without depending on seeds...