Table 3.

Different recombinant proteins produced in crop plants.

Recombinant Protein	Plant	Expression Level	Plants Platform	Reference
Human serum albumin	potato	0.25 µg/mg (0.02% of TSP)	leaf; cell culture	Sijmons et al. [112]
α 1-antitrypsin	rice	4.6–5.7 mg/g dry cell	cell culture	Terashima et al. [113]
Aprotinin	corn	0.069% of TESP total extractable seed protein	seeds	Zhong et al. [114]
Human basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF)	soybean	2.3% of TSP	seeds	Ding et al. [115]
Human recombinant proinsulin	corn	18.87 mg/L (0.42% of TSP)	seeds (endosperm)	Farinas et al. [116]
α 1-antitrypsin	tomato	1.55% of TSP	shoots	Agarwal et al. [117]
Human interferon gamma	rapeseed	NR	seeds	Bagheri et al. [118]
Staphylokinase	potato	NR	shoots	Gerszberg et al. [36]
Lumbrokinase	sunflower	5.1 g/kg	seeds	Guan et al. [119]
Proinsulin	tomato	NR	shoots	Soltanmohammadi et al. [120]
Human proinsulin	strawberry	0.15% TSP	shoots and roots	Tavizi et al. [121]
Human gastric lipase (hGl)	turnip	11 mg/L	hairy root	Ele Ekouna et al. [122]
Human alpha-L-iduronidase (IDUA)	rapeseed	NR	hairy root	Cardon et al. [60]
L-asparaginase II (ansB) gene	potato	NR	hairy root	Mohammadi et al. [123]

TESP, total extractable seed protein; TSP, total soluble protein; NR, not reported.