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TABLE 2.1
Vegetable Crop Species That Have Been Engineered to Express Speciic Transgenes, and their Resulting Effects
Crop
Traits
Gene Expressed
Result
References
Carrot
Pathogen.
resistance
Wheat.chitinase/glucanase,.rice.peroxidase
Peroxidase.expression.enhanced.resistance.to.foliar.fungal.
pathogens
[31]
Trichoderma
.chitinase
Enhanced.tolerance.to.fungal.pathogens
[30]
Pseudomonas luorescens
.microbial.factor.3
Enhanced.tolerance.to.foliar.fungal.pathogens
[104]
Barley.chitinase,.wheat.lipid.transfer.protein
Lower.foliar.disease.due.to.fungal.pathogens
[33]
Rice.thaumatin-like.protein
Lower.foliar.disease.symptoms.to.a.range.of.fungal.pathogens
[34]
Abiotic.stress.
resistance
Carrot.betaine.aldehyde.dehydrogenase,.chloroplast.
expression
Increased.resistance.to.salinity.up.to.400.mM.NaCl
[51]
Metabolic.
engineering
Enhanced.production.of.several.keto-carotenoids
[98]
Haematococcus pluvialis
.β-carotene.ketolase
Medical.
applications
Measles.polypeptides.in.suspension.culture
Functional.measles.vaccine.production
[69,70]
[74]
Shallot
Insect.
resistance
Bacillus thuringiensis
.(BT).Cry1Ca.or.H04.toxin.
genes
Complete.resistance.toward.armyworm.(
S. exigua
)
[8]
Cabbage,.
Chinese.
cabbage.
and.
collards
Pathogen.
resistance
Anti-sense.Turnip.Mosaic.Virus.Nib.gene
High.levels.of.resistance.to.Turnip.Mosaic.Virus
[24]
Aspergillus niger
.glucose.oxidase
Decreased.lesions.by.
Xanthomonas campestris
[105]
Metabolic.
engineering
Three.
Arabidopsis
.genes.(MAM1,.CYP79F1,.
CYP83A1).involved.in.generation.of.aliphatic.
glucosinolates
Altered.glucosinolate.composition.towards.pharmacological.
important.methylsulphinylalkyl.glucosinolates
[101]
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