Crop trangenic for hirudin?

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Crop trangenic for hirudin?

Answer 1

This publication reports a transgenic Rapeseed Plant ( named Canola ) to produce hirudin,

http://www.indsp.org/BiopharmingCanada.p...

"The leech hirudin gene was used to create transgenic canola in which the drug protein was accumulated in the oil bodies of canola seeds.

An article by Giddings et al (8) stated “Oilseed rape transgenic for hirudin is now grown commercially in Canada."

Canola is not the name of a natural plant but a made-up word, from the words "Canada" and "oil". Canola is a genetically engineered plant developed in Canada from the Rapeseed Plant:

http://www.breathing.com/articles/canola...