What is plant molecular farming?
Researchers define plant molecular farming in a number of ways. Consistent with Canadian definitions for plants with novel traits (PNTs), the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has adopted a working definition as follows: “The use of plants in agriculture to produce biomolecules instead of food, feed and fibre. Plants with introduced novel traits that produce scientifically, medically or industrially interesting biomolecules are grown as crops and harvested for the biomolecules”.
