Agriculture Reference
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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
Medical.
applications
Human.lactoferrin
High.levels.of.viable.potentially.therapeutic.protein
[123]
Tomato
Disease.
resistance
Wheat.oxalate.oxidase
Reduction.in.foliar.lesions.by.
B. cinerea
.and.
S. sclerotiorum
[36]
Sweet.pepper.ferredoxin.I.(PFLP)
Resistance.to.
R. solanacearum
.and.
E. carotovora
[39]
High.levels.of.the.GLU-AFP.resulted.in.enhanced.resistance.
to.
Ralstonia solanacearum
[38]
Tomato.β-1,3.glucanase.(GLU),.alfalfa.defensin.gene.
(AFP).and.bivalent.GLU-AFP
Pepper.basic.PR-1.and.ascorbate.peroxidase-like.1
Enhanced.tolerance.to.
Phytophthora capsici
[35]
Tobacco.osmotin.and.bean.chitinase
Resistance.to.
Fusarium oxysporum f.
sp
. Lycopersici
[32]
Tomato.leaf.curl.virus.(TLCV).
replicase
.1,anti-sense.
expression
High.level.of.resistance.to.TLCV
[22]
RNAi.for.TLCV.rep1.and.rep4
Resistance.to.TLCV.was.observed,.the.addition.of.the.second.
RNAi.prevented.evolution.of.resistance
[23]
Mirabilis jalapa
.antimicrobial.peptide.and.maize.
glucanase
Enhanced.resistance.to.
Alternaria solani
[124]
Tomato.spotted.wilt.virus.(TSWV).nucleoprotein
Complete.resistance.in.the.ield.with.no.outcrossing
[27,28]
TLCV.coat.protein.(CP)
Symptomless.when.inoculated.with.TLCV.after.15.days
[19]
Arabidopsis
.thionin.(thi2.1),.fruit.inactive.expression
Leaves.and.roots.were.signiicantly.more.resistant.to.
Fusarium
.and.bacterial.wilt
[125]
Abiotic.stress
Tomato.hydroxycinnamoyl.CoA.quinate.transferase
Increased.phenolic.levels.and.increased.tolerance.toward.UV.
radiation
[60]
Tomato.omega-3.fatty.acid.desaturase
Resistance.to.chilling.stress.at.low.irradiance
[61]
Chili.pepper.ankyrin.repeat.domain.zinc.inger
Decreased.accumulation.of.free.oxygen.radicals.and.enhanced.
resistance.to.salinity.and.oxidative.stress
[62]
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