Production of foreign molecules in transgenic plants is anticipated to be an alternative to already established, microbial or animal expression systems with lower production costs. This article reviews the different technologies and approaches currently used to produce economically interesting molecules in plants or plant cell cultures, to evaluate their technical feasibility and economic implications, and to assess the potential socioeconomic and environmental impacts deriving from the adoption of molecular farming products.

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植物分子农业：机遇与挑战。

预期在转基因植物中生产外来分子将以较低的生产成本替代已建立的微生物或动物表达系统。本文回顾了目前用于在植物或植物细胞培养物中生产具有经济意义的分子，评估其技术可行性和经济意义以及评估因采用分子农业产品而产生的潜在社会经济和环境影响的不同技术和方法。