Bioengineered Crops: The Commercial and Ethical Considerations

A hemagglutinin with mitogenic activity from dark red kidney beans

“…Lectins serve as recognition factors between symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacterias and host plants and as storage proteins in plants [21]. Lectins have been used in the biological control of microorganisms and thus reduction of crop loss [22].…”

“…Lectins have been used in the biological control of microorganisms and thus reduction of crop loss [22]. They are used in blood typing and stimulation of cells for chromosome analysis and gene mapping, in cell separation, identification of complex glycoproteins and typing of bacteria [21]. Mitogenic lectins have a curative potential.…”