Molecular Farming of Medicinal Plants in Face of Environmental Challenges

Abstract

The uses of medicinal plant as a medicine and secondary metabolites are about a century old, but genetic engineering of these medicinal plants for production of pharmaceuticals is much more recent. Molecular farming aids in increasing the pharmaceutical compounds which are easily available and significantly cost-effective. Recently the cost of biopharmaceutical availability is limited, but plant-based pharmaceuticals are available in stores, and it is cheap to produce the plant-based compounds which help scale up the industry. Here we discussed the recent development of molecular farming in this field and possible environ-mental challenges. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023.