To meet the demands for food of the expanding world population, there is need of new ways
for protecting plant crops against predators and pathogens while avoiding the use of …

Bruchid larvae cause major losses of grain legume crops through-out the world. Some
bruchid species, such as the cowpea weevil and the azuki bean weevil, are pests that …

The structure of phytohemagglutinin-L (PHA-L), a leucoagglutinating seed lectin from
Phaseolus vulgaris, has been solved with molecular replacement using the coordinates of …

The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, contains a family of defense proteins that comprises
phytohemagglutinin (PHA), arcelin, and α-amylase inhibitor (αAI). Here we report eight new …

Arcelin, a seed protein discovered in wild Phaseolus vulgaris L. accessions, gives high
levels of resistance to the Mexican bean weevil [MBW; Zabrotes subfasciatus (Boheman)] …

The field of plant genetic engineering has arisen from the laboratory and into the market
place as a technology to provide farmers and consumers with improved crops. 1996 marks a …

The contents of sulfur amino acids in seeds of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) are
suboptimal for nutrition. They accumulate large amounts of a γ-glutamyl dipeptide of S …

In common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), the most abundant seed proteins are the storage
protein phaseolin and the family of closely related APA proteins (arcelin …

This chapter presents the definition of a storage protein as" any protein accumulated in
significant quantities in the developing seed which on germination is rapidly hydrolyzed to …

A reproducible Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated genetic transformation method that
delivers fertile and morphologically normal transgenic plants was developed for cultivated …