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TABLE 2.1 (continued)
Vegetable Crop Species That Have Been Engineered to Express Speciic Transgenes, and their Resulting Effects
Crop Traits Gene Expressed Result References

Pea/bean Disease.

resistance

Bean.golden.mosaic.virus.(BGMV). AC1 .gene,.RNAi.
expression

High.resistance.towards.BGMV [26]

Mutated.rep.gene.of.BGMV Increased.number.of.symptomless.plants.compared.to.

nontransformed

[25]

Abiotic.stress B. napus .LEA Improved.resistance.to.both.NaCl.and.drought.stresses [46]

Nutritional.
modiication

Modiied.feedback.insensitive.rice.anthranilate.
synthase

Higher.levels.of.free.tryptophan.accumulation.and.total.
tryptophan.levels

[113]

Insect.
resistance

Bean.alpha.amylase.inhibitor.1 Delayed.larval.development.of.the.pea.weevil [6]

Increased.resistance.to.Mexican.bean.weevil [114]

Common.bean.α-amylase.inhibitor.2

Cucumber Disease.

resistance

Rice.class.I.chitinase High.resistance.towards. B. cinerea [29]

Abiotic.stress Wild.potato.dehydrins Enhanced.resistance.to.chilling.stress.and.increased.freezing.

tolerance

[115,116]

Nutritional.
modiication

Cassava.superoxide.dismutase,.fruit.expression Higher.accumulation.of.SOD [117]

Thaumatococcus daniellii .thaumatin.II

Sweet.tasting.phenotype,.with.minor.resistance.to.
Pseudoperonospora cubensis

[118]

Lettuce/
spinach

Disease.
resistance

Coat.protein.(CP).gene.of.lettuce.big-vein.associated.
virus.(LBVaV).in.sense.or.antisense.orientation

Sense.CP.provided.resistance.to.LBVaV,.while.anti-sense.CP.
expression.gave.resistance.to.LBVaV.and.miraiori.lettuce.
virus

[20]

Flammulina .sp..oxalate.decarboxylase.gene Reduced. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum .disease.symptoms [37]

Abiotic.stress Arabidopsis .ABF3,.ABA.responsive.gene.transcription.

factor

Higher.tolerance.to.both.drought.and.cold.stresses [119]

B. napus .LEA Increased.tolerance.to.salt.and.drought.stress [48]