In this volume, the authors provide an excellent overview of how far the plant viral vector field has come. The discipline is no longer exclusively in the domain of academics-there is a small, but growing number of small biotechnology companies that exploit plant viruses as the platform for commercial innovation in crop improvement, industrial product manufacturing, and human and veterinary health care.

<p>Preface

A personal history of virus-based vector construction by William O. Dawson
Virus-derived ssDNA vectors for the expression of foreign proteins in plants by Edward P. Rybicki and Darrin P. Martin
Plant Viral Epitope Display Systems for Vaccine Development by Denis Leclerc
Applications of plant viruses in bionanotechnology by George P. Lomonossoff and David J. Evans
Milestones in the development and applications of plant virus vector as gene silencing platforms
by Christophe Lacomme
Emerging Antibody-based Products by Kevin J. Whaley, Josh Morton, Steve Hume, Ernie Hiatt, Barry Bratcher, Victor Klimyuk, Andrew Hiatt, Michael Pauly, and Larry Zeitlin
Production of Recombinant Antigens and Antibodies in Nicotiana benthamiana Using 'magnifection' Technology: GMP-Compliant Facilities for Small-and Large-Scale Manufacturing by Victor Klimyuk, Gregory Pogue, Stefan Herz, John Butler, and Hugh Haydon
Plant viral vectors for delivery by Agrobacterium by Yuri Y. Gleba,Daniel Tusé and Anatoli Giritch
Subject index.</p>