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Between 1987 and 1991, the United States Department of Agriculture received well over 100 proposals for field trials of transgenic plants. The majority of trials were designed to test for enhanced resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses (Table 1). Other trials were concerned with alterations in product quality: delayed fruit ripening, modified seed proteins, increased carbohydrate content of tubers, increased sterol content, modification of oil content to reduce rancidity, and alteration of flower pigmentation. The common theme was crop improvement and the desired phenotype was conferred by transformation, usually with a single foreign gene.
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Bennett, J. (1993). Genes for Crop Improvement. In: Setlow, J.K. (eds) Genetic Engineering. Genetic Engineering: Principles and Methods, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1666-2_8
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