Plant- and microalgae-made fish vaccines

Abstract

Fish aquaculture is one of the fastest-growing food sectors, fencing disease problems for sustainable production. The need for "aquatic" vaccines has been inevitable. Plants and microalgae have been developed for decades as affordable vaccine production and oral delivery platforms for terrestrial animals and human beings. Recent advances in these systems have focused on producing vaccines for aquaculture with promising outcomes. This review discusses both technologies, describing a workflow with strategies and engineering tools available for efficient vaccine production, providing basic fish immunology considerations for vaccination, and examining the developed plant- and microalgae-made vaccines for fish. Obstacles are identified, and proposed strategies are provided to overcome them, along with prospects for industrial adoption.

Keywords: Edible vaccines; Eukaryotic vaccine platform; Green and blue biotechnology; Oral vaccines; Recombinant protein.