| Organizations supporting the Conference as Grand Host, Host or Presenter |
| Organizations participating in the conference |
| Other Plant-Factory organizations |
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| Organization |
Production Host(s) |
Products / Indications |
Agrenvec, Spain
www.agrenvec.com |
Brassica (viral expression) |
Contract manufacturing |
Agrisoma Biosciences Inc., Canada
www.agrisoma.com |
ACE system (gene delivery and expression platform) |
Value enhanced crops;
industrial and therapeutic proteins |
Arizona State University,
Department of Plant Biology (AzBio), USA |
Tomato, others |
Oral-administration vaccines |
Bayer CropScience, BioScience
www.bayercropscience.com |
Green biomass |
Antibodies |
Bevo Farms, Canada
www.bevofarms.com |
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Contract farming |
Biolex, USA
www.biolex.com |
Lemna |
Interferon, others |
Chlorogen, USA
www.chlorogen.com |
Tobacco |
Human therapeutics proteins, antibodies, vaccines, biological reagents; ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer |
Chromatin Inc., USA
www.chromatininc.com |
Centromeres and mini-chromosome platforms for soybean, brassica species, corn and tomato |
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CIGB - Cuba, Cuba
www.cigb.edu.cu |
Tobacco |
Antibodies |
Cobento Biotech, Denmark
www.cobento.dk |
Arabidopsis |
Human intrinsic factor transcobalamin Protein |
Controlled Pharming Ventures, USA
www.controlledpharming.com |
Maize tomato, tobacco, rice, barley, alfalfa and others |
Contract research and manufacturing services |
| Dow AgroSciences LLC, USA www.dowagro.com |
Plant-cells |
Antibodies and vaccines: infectious diseases; auto-immune disorders; food safety and therapeutic antibodies |
| Dow BioPharma, USA www.dowplantpharma.com |
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Contract manufacturing |
ERA Plantech, Spain
www.eraplantech.com |
Protein bodies in most plant tissues and species |
Product-neutral productivity improvements |
| Evogene, Israel www.cgen.com/subsidiaries/evogene.html |
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Platforms |
| Farmacule BioIndustries Australia www.farmacule.com |
Tobacco, banana, sugarcane |
Bioplastics; edible vaccines, high value protein and industrial proteins |
| Fraunhofer IME, Germany www.ime.fraunhofer.de |
Tobacco, corn, rice, wheat, tomato, plant suspension cells |
Antibodies, vaccines (injectables and oral administration), enzymes for oncology and infectious disease |
GENEART GmbH, Germany
www.geneart.com |
GeneOptimizer - Gene optimization and gene construction |
Proprietary GeneOptimizer technology for multi-parameter gene optimization allowing increased genetic stability, prolonged mRNA halflife and elevated translational rates |
| greenovation Biotech GmbH, Germany www.greenovation.com |
Moss |
Monoclonal antibodies and other complex proteins |
| Icon Genetics AG, Germany www.icongenetics.com |
Tobacco, nicotiana benthamiana, spinach, red beets |
Viral and bacterial infections, cancer, enzyme replacement therapy, industrial enzymes, food additives. 9 product candidates including microbial and viral vaccines, antibodies, follow-on biologicals and specialty proteins |
| Instituto de Virologia, Argentina www.inta.gov.ar |
Alfalfa |
Vaccine for foot and mouth disease virus, swine-transmissible gastroenteritis coronavirus, bovine rotavirus |
Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center, USA
www.uky.edu/ktrdc |
Tobacco, Nicotiana |
Research and sgricultural-production support for PMP companies using tobacco as production host. Provision of Nicotiana, a new non-food host-crop dedicated exculsively to PMP applications and visually distinct from all existing crops (including conventional tobacco) for regulatory, containment, and identity-preservation purposes. |
Kumho Life & Environmental Science Lab, Korea
www.kumho.co.kr |
Hevea trees (proteins secreted in rubber) |
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| Large Scale Biology Corporation, USA www.lsbc.com |
Non-GM nicotiana species |
Therapeutics enzymes and enzyme inhibitors; human and animal health vaccines; antibody fragments; cardiovascular therapy, metabolic disorders and oncology |
LemnaGene, USA
www.lemnagene.com |
Lemna |
Anti-infectious peptides; enzymes; antibodies |
LevTech Inc., USA
www.levtech.net |
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Downstream processing technology |
Linnaeus Plant Sciences Inc., Canada
www.linnaeus.net |
Lesquerella fendleri, Arabidopsis thaliana |
Vegetable-based motor oil, high recinoleic acid crop plants, other speciality oils |
| Maltagen Forschung GmbH, Germany www.maltagen.com |
Barley |
Lactoferrin, lysozyme, human serum albumin, hepatitis vaccine, Edible vaccines |
| Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., USA |
Tobacco |
Monoclonal antibodies against herpes simplex virus, HIV-1 |
| MEDICAGO INC., Canada www.medicago.com |
Alfalfa |
Plasma proteins and monoclonal antibodies |
| MERISTEM Therapeutics, France www.meristem-therapeutics.com |
Corn and tobacco |
Gastric lipase - MERISPASE®; albumin; human collagen; human lactoferrin; human IgA (x4); dust mite allergens; murine IgM (monomeric); human plasma proteins |
Metabolix, USA
www.metabolix.com |
Switchgrass |
Bioplastics |
| NEXGEN Biotechnologies, Inc., Korea www.nexgenbiotech.com |
Tobacco, oriental melon, cucumber |
Pharmaceuticals, Diagnosis KIT (Hantaan & Puumala Virus Multi Rapid KIT, Graves' Disease ELISA & Rapid KIT), antigens (HIV, HBV, HCV, HPV, Dangue Virus, Malaria Virus), cosmeceuticals (EGF, EGF: Albuman, Amima) |
| Novoplant GmbH, Germany www.novoplant.de |
Tubers, rape seed, flax seed, peas |
Orally administered antibodies for animal health |
| Nucycle Therapy inc., USA www.nucycletherapy.com |
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Oral anthrax vaccine |
ORF Genetics, Iceland
www.orfgenetics.com |
Barley, lettuce |
Growth factors, proteases, antibodies, vaccines |
| Phycotransgenics, LLC, USA www.phycotransgenics.com |
Green algae |
Animal health (vaccines) and animal nutrition (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) |
Phytomedics, USA
www.phytomedics.com |
Tobacco |
Type II diabetes (PMI-5011); Natural alternative to Aspirin (PMI-5001) |
| Phyton Biotech, Germany |
Plant cells |
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Phytoprotein
www.phytoprotein.com |
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| Planet Biotechnology, Inc., USA www.planetbiotechnology.com |
Tobacco |
Antibodies (secretory IgA), and immunoadhesins primarily of tropical (e.g., oral, nasal) administration; eg dental caries, rhinovirus infection |
Planta-Pharma Project European Community
www.pharma-planta.org |
Corn (?), others? |
Antibodies, vaccines, other |
| PlantBio Products, Spain |
Chloroplast transformation |
Bioplastics |
Plantechno SRL, Italy
www.plantechno.com |
Rice, wheat, tomato, maize, poplar, agaricus, barley |
Enzymes, phytoremediation |
Plantigen, Canada
www.lhsc.on.ca/plantigen |
Tobacco |
GAD and cytokines, Inflammatory Bowel disease, IL-10 (interleukin 10), IL-4 (interleukin 4), others |
Planton, Germany
www.planton.de |
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Plant Research International, The Netherlands
www.plant.wageningen-ur.nl |
Platform technologies applicable in all plant hosts (tobacco, potato, tomato, rice, others) |
Antibodies as a model: vaccines for oral application and targeted delivery |
Prairie Plant Systems, Inc
www.prairieplant.com |
Medical marijuana |
Biosecure underground growth chamber system |
Prodigene, USA
www.prodigene.com |
Corn |
Enzymes, others |
ProGenCo
www.progenco.com |
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Protalix Ltd., Israel
www.protalix.com |
Plant cell culture incubators |
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| Rubber Institute of Malaysia, Malaysia |
Rubber trees |
Human serum albumin |
| Rutgers University, USA (Dr. Pal Maliga) |
Chloroplast transformation |
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| Saponin Inc., Canada |
Saponaria |
Antimicrobial peptides, starch and saponins |
| Scripps Research Institute |
Algae |
Antibodies |
| SemBioSys Genetics, Canada www.sembiosys.com |
Safflower |
Recombinant therapeutic proteins, insulin, apolipoprotein A-I, therapeutic oils, animal vaccines, topical ingredient systems, industrial enzymes and protein purification systems. Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dietary & nutritional health, animal health, skin care and dermatological disease |
Solazyme, Inc., USA
www.solazyme.com |
Photosynthetic microbes |
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SunGene, Germany
www.sungene.de |
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| Sunol Molecular Corporation, USA www.sunolmolecular.com |
Lettuce, arabidopsis |
Antibodies |
| Syngenta, Switzerland www.syngenta.com/en/biopharma |
Safflower (primary) |
Biopharmaceuticals for a range of indications, including antibodies, enzymes and other protein therapeutics |
UniCrop Ltd, Finland
www.unicrop.fi |
Camelina Sprouts |
Model proteins: monoclonal antibodies, immunoglobulin fusion protein; human serum albumin, enzymes |
Ventria Bioscience, USA
www.ventria.com |
Rice, barley |
Lactoferrin, lysozyme |