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Bridging agriculture, health and industry through plant molecular farming in the bioeconomic era

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Global food production requires a major upheaval to feed a burgeoning human population despite multiple disruptors, ranging from climate change to geopolitical instability. Innovation and a policy shift that focuses on the Bioeconomy could address these challenges. This Perspective highlights plant cellular agriculture, molecular farming, and plant cell culture as a potential “fourth pillar” that could diversify supply and produce high-value compounds associated with regulatory uncertainty, cost, and energy constraints.

Source: npj Science of Plants

DOI: 10.1038/s44383-025-00011-7

Authors: Kathleen Hefferon, Adam Gannon, Abdullah Mohammad Shohael

Institutions: Cornell University, Jahangirnagar University

Language: English

Topic: Transgenic Plants and Applications

Subfield: Biotechnology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,590