Besides gene transfer that enhances resistance to bacterial and insect infections, or alters the character for agricultural applications and flowers, another use is to produce medicinal molecules.
除了農作物、花卉等抗病蟲害、改變性狀的基因轉殖外，利用轉殖植物來生產藥物或蛋白質，更是生物醫學界積極研究的方向。