在过去 2 0余年里 ,植物生物技术领域中最值得重视的是多种转基因植物的建成 ,并已在一些国家大面积种植。转基因植物另一方面的进展是合成有医疗价值的多肽、蛋白质、包括抗体、抗体表位、复杂蛋白质等。这里主要介绍转基因植物生产的医疗用多肽、蛋白质 ,特别是作为口服疫苗在动物和临床试验的成功 ,预示这种新的用药途径将对第三世界人民的健康起到重大作用。由于转基因口服疫苗不需通过常规发酵反应器 ,仅仅依赖于农业 ,因此有人提出“分子农业”一词 ,以显示其优越性。 Over the past two decades, the most significant emphasis in the field of plant biotechnology is the establishment of a large number of genetically modified plants, which have been planted in large areas in some countries. On the other hand, the progress of transgenic plants is to synthesize medical peptides, proteins, including antibodies, antibody epitopes, complex proteins and the like. Here we mainly introduce the successful use of medical peptides and proteins produced by transgenic plants in animal and clinical trials, especially as oral vaccines. This indicates that this new route of administration will play a significant role in the health of people in the third world. Since the transgene oral vaccine does not need to pass through conventional fermentation reactors and relies solely on agriculture, the term “molecular agriculture” has been proposed to show its superiority.