molecular forming plants are different from natural medicinal plants. how?
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Molecular farming is defined as the production of proteins or other metabolites valuable to medicine or industry in plants traditionally used in an agricultural setting. Crop plants can synthesize a wide variety of proteins that are free of mammalian toxins and pathogens. Crop plants produce large amounts of biomass at low cost and require limited facilities. Since plants have long been used as a source of medicinal compounds, molecular farming represents a novel source of molecular medicines, such as plasma proteins, enzymes, growth factors, vaccines and recombinant antibodies, whose medical applications are understood at a molecular level. Bio-pharming promises more plentiful and cheaper supplies of pharmaceutical drugs, including vaccines for infectious diseases and therapeutic proteins for treatment of such things as cancer and heart disease. "Plant-made pharmaceuticals" (PMPs) are produced by genetically engineering plants to produce specific compounds, generally proteins, which are extracted and purified after harvest. As used here, the terms molecular farming and PMP do not include naturally occurring plant products or nutritionally enhanced foods.