Table 1 Transgenic crop plants ectopically expressing AtNPR1

Canola

Bacterial disease (P.syringae)

a

Potlakayala et al.⁴⁴

Carrot

Sclerotinia rot (S. sclerotiorum)

Gray mold (B. cinerea)

Black rot (A.radicina)

Bacterial leaf blight (X. hortorum pv. carotae)

Powdery mildew (Erysiphe heraclei)

a

Wally et al.⁷

Citrus

Citrus canker (X. citri ssp. citri.)

Citrus greening (Huanglongbing)

a

Zhang et al.⁹ Dutt et al.⁵⁰

Boscariol-Camargo et al.⁴⁸

Cotton

Verticillium wilt (V. dahliae)

Fusarium wilt (F. oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum)

Seedling damping-off (R. solani)

Alternaria leaf spot (A. alternata)

Nematode (R. reniformis)

Black root rot (T. basicola)

a

Kumar et al.⁴⁵ Parkhi et al.^46,47

Rice

Bacterial blight (X. oryzae pv. oryzae)

Blast disease (M. oryzae)

Bakanae disease (F. verticillioides)

Bacterial foot rot (E. chrysanthemi)

Sheath blight (R. solani)^a

Lesion-mimic cell death

Accumulation of H₂O₂ around lesions

Susceptibility to the rice yellow mottle virus

Growth retardation, reduced height and smaller seeds, with consequent lower productivity; and development of spontaneous lesions in controlled conditions

Chern et al.^17a Fitzgerald et al.³⁹ Quilis et al.⁴⁰ Molla et al.^42a

Plant species

Resistance/tolerance (caused by)

Abnormal Phenotype

Reference

Soybean

Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.)

Cyst nematode (H. glycines)

a

Youssef et al.¹³ Matthews et al.¹²

Strawberry

Anthracnose (C. acutatum)

Crown rot (C. gloeosporioides)

Powdery mildew (P. aphanis)

Angular leaf spot (X. fragariae)

Shorter plants, reduced canopy size and density

No production of runners and fruits

Silva et al.¹¹

Tobacco

Common cutworm larvae (S. litura)

Root-rot nematode (M. incognita)

polyethylene glycol and oxidative stress tolerance

a

Meur et al.⁶ Priya et al.⁵² Srinivasan et al.⁵³

Tomato

Bacterial wilt (R. solanacearum)

Gray leaf spot (S.solani).

Bacterial spot (X. campestris pv. vesicatoria)

Susceptibility to Fusarium wilt

(F. oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici)

Lin et al.^3,39

Wheat

Fusarium head blight (F. graminearum)

Susceptibility to Fusarium seedling blight (Fusarium spp.)

Makandar et al.^4a

Wheat

Fusarium head blight (F. graminearum)

Susceptibility to Fusarium seedling blight (Fusarium spp.)

Gao et al.⁴³