Table 1 - Plant protease inhibitors in control of phytophagous insects

Table 1. Transgenic crop plants expressing plant protease inhibitor genes.

Inhibitor	Crop Plant	Crop Pest	Reference
Cowpea trypsin inhibitor (CpTi)	Tobacco Rice Potato Strawberry Tobacco Cotton Wheat Pigeonpea	Heliothis virescens Chilo supressalis Sesamia inferens Lacanobia oleraceae Otiorynchus suscatus Spodoptera litura H.armigera Sitotroga cerealla H. armigera	Hilder et al. 1987 Xu et al. 1996 Gatehouse et al. 1997 Graham et al. 1997 Sane et al. 1997 Li et al. 1998 Alpteter et al. 1999 Lawrence et al. 2001
CpTi + Snowdrop lectin Potato inhibitor II	Sweet potato Tobacco Rice	Cyclas formicarius Manduca sexta Chrysodeisus eriosoma Sesamia inferens	Newell et al. 1995 Johnson et al. 1989 McManus et al.1994 Duan et al.1996
Tomato inhibitor I and II	Tobacco	M.sexta	Johnson et al.1989
Sweet potato trypsin inhibitor (TI)	Tobacco	M.sexta	Yeh et al.1997
Soybean Kunitz TI	Rice	Nilaparvata lugens	Lee et al. 1999
Barley TI	Tobacco	Agrotis ipsilon Spodoptera lituralis	Carbonero et al.1993
Nicotiana alta protease inhibitor (PI)	Tobacco Peas	Helicoverpa punctigera Plutella xylostella	Heath et al. 1997 Charity et al. 1999
Serpin type serine PI Oryzacystatin	Tobacco Rapeseed	Bemisia tabaci Ceutorynchus assimilis	Thomas et al. 1995 Girard et al. 1998

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