Insights into Transgenic Vegetables: Progress and Prospects

Abstract

Vegetables play a significant role in the daily diet of human being as they contain essential vitamins, minerals, dietary fibres, and key phytochemical compounds that help to enhance human health, good vision and a minimum risk of heart chronic diseases. Geographical region and local traditions differ widely with the intake of vegetable supplements to the diet. The production of vegetables suffers from abiotic and biotic stress responses. To enhance the host plant resistance or tolerance against these stresses and enrich the vegetables with prolonged shelf-life, high nutritional status, it is essential to produce genetically modified vegetables. In the 21st century, genetically modified transgenic vegetable crops have a major contribution to food and nutritional security. This study explores the potential prospects of the global vegetable scenario and the methods to develop genetically engineered vegetable crops by transgenic technologies. © 2022 Friends Science Publishers