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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2021

COVID-19 Crisis: How Can Plant Biotechnology Help?

Md Jahidul Islam Shohag, Farhana Zerin Khan, Lin Tang, Yanyan Wei, Zhenli He, Xiaoe Yang

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Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Md Jahidul Islam ShohagCollege of Environmental and Resources Science, Zhejiang University, Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8799-4401
Farhana Zerin KhanCollege of Environmental and Resources Science, Zhejiang University, Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Lin TangCollege of Environmental and Resources Science, Zhejiang University, Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Yanyan WeiCollege of Environmental and Resources Science, Zhejiang University, Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Zhenli HeCollege of Environmental and Resources Science, Zhejiang University, Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7761-2070
Xiaoe YangCollege of Environmental and Resources Science, Zhejiang University, Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, Hangzhou 310058, China.
University of Florida · USZhejiang University · CNGopalganj Science and Technology University · BDGuangxi University · CN

Funding

Youth Natural Science Foundation of China 31401949
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant public health crisis all over the world. The rapid spreading nature and high mortality rate of COVID-19 places a huge pressure on scientists to develop effective diagnostics and therapeutics to control the pandemic. Some scientists working on plant biotechnology together with commercial enterprises for the emergency manufacturing of diagnostics and therapeutics have aimed to fulfill the rapid demand for SARS-CoV-2 protein antigen and antibody through a rapid, scalable technology known as transient/stable expression in plants. Plant biotechnology using transient/stable expression offers a rapid solution to address this crisis through the production of low-cost diagnostics, antiviral drugs, immunotherapy, and vaccines. Transient/stable expression technology for manufacturing plant-based biopharmaceuticals is already established at commercial scale. Here, current opinions regarding how plant biotechnology can help fight against COVID-19 through the production of low-cost diagnostics and therapeutics are discussed.

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biopharmaceuticalsCOVID-19diagnostics and therapeuticsplant biotechnologytransient expression

Identifiers

PMID33673316
PMCPMC7917634
OpenAlexW3132499529

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Registered trials

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