A tobacco-based Covid-19 vaccine?
Story Date: 1/20/2021

 

Source: SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 1/19/21

Some might call it an organic approach to fighting COVID 19. A Canadian company is in the final stages of testing a plant-based COVID-19 virus vaccine that they hope can get approval for distribution later this year. Medicago, based near Quebec City, is using chloroplast proteins found in a plant within the tobacco family and native to Australia. 

For more of this story, click here.
























   Copyright © 2007 North Carolina Agribusiness Council, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
   All use of this Website is subject to our
Terms of Use Agreement and our Privacy Policy.