I am extracting soluble proteins from plant material as well as seeds in bulk, after extraction I need to concentrate them. Do I have any option other than freeze drying?
So you intend to do bio-assay on the concentrated protein? You can try differential precipitation with ammonium sulfate (AS). You start with ~40% AS mix in the cold and centrifuge. Keep the pellet and add AS to make 60% AS final in the soup, incubate at the cold and centrifuge. Again soup, to 80%, cold, centrifuge.