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. 2021 Nov 11;30(5):1966–1978. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2021.11.008

Table 1.

Fresh harvested biomass, moisture content, total protein content, and ACE2 content of CTB-ACE2 plants grown at Fraunhofer and AeroFarms related to their age and growth condition

Entity Growth condition Age (days) Fresh weight/plant (g) Total fresh biomass (kg) Moisture content (%) CTB-ACE2 expression (mg/g DW) ± SD Total protein content (mg/g DW) ± SD % CTB-ACE2 content/total protein content
Fraunhofer standard 58 110 23.8 5.6 8.8 ± 0.9 139.8 ± 4.2 6.3
90 224 48.4 10.9 5.7 ± 0.9 140.6 ± 6.6 4.1
107 111 24 7.4 13.5 ± 1.9 144.0 ± 7.6 9.4
120 46 10 6.98 17.2 ± 1.1 147.2 ± 6.0 11.7
AeroFarms tower 1 79 179 8.4 5.6–6.3 4.0 ± 0.8 92.9 ± 1.5 4.3
100 34 1.6 6.2 8.4 ± 0.1 95.3 ± 2.3 8.8
tower 2 79 245 11.8 7.4 2.5 ± 0.6 104.1 ± 6.7 2.4
100 158 7.6 5.3 5.3 ± 0.8 106.9 ± 5.6 5.0
tower 3 79 245 9.8 6.5 2.6 ± 0.6 111.5 ± 6.8 2.3
100 170 6.8 5.6 7.6 ± 0.5 128.6 ± 5.0 5.9

The values of CTB-ACE2 expression are mean ± SD (n = 3). The values for total leaf protein are the mean ± SD (n = 8).