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Vegetables play a vital role in human nutrition and health by providing nutrients, vitamins, antioxidants, phytosterols, and dietary fiber. In the develo** world, vegetable farming is a considerable part of the agricultural economy of different nations. Vegetable crop quality and quantity are seriously affected by various biotic and abiotic stresses, which destabilize rural economies in many countries. In the last many decades, conventional breeding has contributed significantly for the improvement of vegetable quality, yields, biotic and abiotic stress resistance, and postharvest management, but there are many constraints in conventional breeding, which can only be overcome by techniques of modern biology for genetic advancements.
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We are highly thankful to Dr. K. R. Koundal, Dr. P. Ananda Kumar (NRCPB, IARI, New Delhi), and Dr. D. P. S Verma, Plant Biotechnology Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, for providing Agrobacterium strain containing the cry1Aa and cry1Ab and nptII and gus gene(s), respectively, which were used in various vegetable crops, and their work which has been cited in this chapter. We are grateful to the professor and head of the Department of Vegetable Science Dr. Y.S. Parmar UHF Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India, for providing us the healthy certified seeds of economically important vegetable crops. We are also thankful to our students Dr. Monika Awasthi, Dr. Anil Kant, Dr. Nimisha Gupta, Dr. Chhaya Sharma, Dr. Sneh Sharma, Dr. Sonali Dixit, Dr. Shalini Sharma, Dr. Narender Singh, Dr. J Venkatesh, Dr. Swati Verma, Dr. Karuna Dhiman, Dr. Poornima Sharma, Ms. Sonia Kumari, Ms. Hemlata Verma, Ms. Pooja Sharma, and Ms. Ishani Shaunak for their research contributions.
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Srivastava, D.K., Kumar, P., Sharma, S., Gaur, A., Gambhir, G. (2016). Genetic Engineering for Insect Resistance in Economically Important Vegetable Crops. In: Anis, M., Ahmad, N. (eds) Plant Tissue Culture: Propagation, Conservation and Crop Improvement. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1917-3_15
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