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What are edible vaccines? How are they better than conventional vaccines?Give any points.

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The genes encoding antigenic proteins can be isolated from pathogens and expressed in plants. Such transgenic plants or their tissues producing antigens can be eaten for vaccination / immunization. These are called edible vaccines.

Edible vaccines offer following advantages over conventional vaccines:

1. Low cost

2.Alleviation of storage problems

3.Easy delivery system by feeding 



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