Pest resistant plants
There is clearly a benefit to farmers, if transgenic plants are developing a resistant into specific pest.
For example, Papaya-ring-spot-virus resistant papaya has been commercialized and grown in Hawaii since 1996.
There may also be a benefit to the environment, if the use of pesticides is reduced
Therapeutic proteins from transgenic plants
Proteins of therapeutic importance, like those used in the treatment, diagnosis of human diseases can be produced in plants, using recombinant DNA technology. Scaling-up of these transgenic plants to fields, results in industrial production of proteins. The area of research combining molecular Biotechnology and Agriculture is called Molecular farming or pharming. The proteins produced in transgenic plants for therapeutic use, are of three types (i) antibodies, (b) proteins and (iii) vaccines.