Abstract: Plant transformants having an expressible heterologous gene for an antimicrobial agent for disease resistance and/or a protein high in limiting essential amino acid content for enhanced nutritional quality. Monocots, dicots and gymnosperms are genetically enhanced for disease resistance to express a lytic peptide such as cecropin, attacin or lysozyme, or an antiviral antisense micRNA. The nutritional quality of plants cultivated for food is enhanced by a gene expressing a protein containing 25-60 weight percent of methionine, lysine, tryptophan, threonine and isoleucine. Methods for obtaining such transformants, novel expressing vectors, novel proteins high in essential amino acids, and novel lytic peptides are also disclosed.

Abstract: Plant transformants having an expressible heterologous gene for an antimicrobial agent for disease resistance and/or a protein high in limiting essential amino acid content for enhanced nutritional quality. Monocots, dicots and gymnosperms are genetically enhanced for disease resistance to express a lytic peptide such as cecropin, attacin or lysozyme, or an antiviral antisense micRNA. The nutritional quality of plants cultivated for food is enhanced by a gene expressing a protein containing 25-60 weight percent of methionine, lysine, tryptophan, threonine and isoleucine. Methods for obtaining such transformants, novel expressing vectors, novel proteins high in essential amino acids, and novel lytic peptides are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of inhibiting pathogenic conditions of plants including viral, bacterial, and fungal infections and insert infestations by expressing into the plant genome genes encoding for a polypeptide inhibitor or inhibitor precursor of the pathogenic condition which inhibitor or precursor is selected from complementary oligonucleotides for blocking viral transcription or translation produced in vivo, one or more proteins derived from the humoral response to bacterial infection of the Hyalophora, an antifungal plasmid or a chitin integument disruption chitinase enzyme. Novel microbes, polypetides, and compositions containing amino acid sequences are disclosed.