Application of genetic engineering

A. Direct application:

1. Disease and pest resistance
2. Insect and herbicide resistance.

• Chick pea resistant to pod borer and salmonella

3. Sex expression

4. Virus resistance:

• RNA from sense (+) + RNA from nonsense (-) à RNA Duplex (+,-) à No protein formation and resistance to virus.

a. Sex expression:

• MM(heterozygous male) + mm (homozygous female) à Mm(heterozygous)

 

b. Increased quality

c. Edible vaccines

d. Production of novel biochemicals

e. Seed storage

 

B. Indirect Application:

• Introduction of nuclear encoded marker genes for hybridization and cybridization.
• Introduction of transposons in crop plants for tagging genes of agricultural traits.