section_path: Trends/Plants as bioreactors for vaccine production
section_name: Plants as bioreactors for vaccine production
paragraph_text: Plants as bioreactors for vaccine production
  
  The idea of vaccine production via transgenic plants was identified as early as 2003. Plants such as tobacco, potato, tomato, and banana can have genes inserted that cause them to produce vaccines usable for humans. In 2005, bananas were developed that produce a human vaccine against hepatitis B.