image: Nicotiana benthamiana plant that is ready to be infiltrated to synthesize SARS-CoV2 antigen for use in a plant-based vaccine. view more
Credit: Allyson MacLean, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277668
Article Title: Scalable agroinfiltration-based production of SARS-CoV-2 antigens for use in diagnostic assays and subunit vaccines
Author Countries: Canada
Funding: This study was funded in part by a COVID-19 Rapid Response grant by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR, #VR2 – 172722) and by a grant supplement by the Canadian Immunity Task Force (CITF) to MAL. MM holds a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST) and YG holds a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Frederick Banting and Charles Best graduate scholarship (CGS-M). Production of RBD was supported financially by the National Research Council Canada Pandemic Response Challenge program. Greenhouse management was supported by funding from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Science. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Scalable agroinfiltration-based production of SARS-CoV-2 antigens for use in diagnostic assays and subunit vaccines
Article Publication Date
14-Dec-2022
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.