“…It has been demonstrated for different plant hosts, including corn [7], tobacco [22,23], alfalfa [44,45], and soybean [43,48], that an ATPP can be chosen and optimized for recovery of hydrophobic proteins in top phase from plant tissue/seed extracts, while at 20-40 % native protein from high-protein hosts, such as tobacco, alfalfa, soybean, and corn germ, forms precipitates on the interface between two phases. Furthermore, in PEG-salt ATP systems, partition coefficients of native protein, which are extracted from corn germ [7], tobacco [22], and soybean [43,48], are generally less than 1.…”