Table 4.

Transgenic development efforts in finger millet for stress tolerance.

Trait	Transformation method	Gene/protein	References
Leaf blast	Particle gun	Pin gene (pPin 35S) bar gene (pBar 35S)	Latha et al., 2005
Salt tolerance	Particle gun	Porteresia coarctata serine-rich-protein (PcSrp) encoding gene	Mahalaksmi et al., 2006
Leaf blast disease	Agrobacterium mediated	Rice chitinase gene	Ceasar and Ignacimuthu, 2011; Ignacimuthu and Ceasar, 2012
Various abiotic stresses including drought and salt	Agrobacterium mediated	A stress responsive NAC gene (EcNAC1) from finger millet was expressed in tobacco	Ramegowda et al., 2012
Salt tolerance	Agrobacterium mediated	Vacuolar proton pyrophosphatase gene (SbVPPase) from Sorghum bicolor	Anjaneyulu et al., 2014
Drought tolerance	Agrobacterium mediated	EcDehydrin7 protein of finger millet expressed in tobacco	Singh R. K. et al., 2015