Present increasing trend of population is alarming for food shortage. It was estimated that by the year of 2050 the population rate may increase up to 9 billion. Rapid increase of human population together with global climate variability resulted in increased demand of plant based food and energy sources. Conventional breeding is still limited due to genetic restrictions (high heterozygosity and polyploidy), long juvenile periods, selfincompatibility, resources restricted to parental genome and exposed to sexual combination. Thus, there is an urgent need for the biotechnology-assisted crop improvement, which ultimately aimed to obtain novel plant traits. Plant genetic engineering has opened new avenues to modify crops, and provided new solutions to solve specific needs. Therefore, this paper reviews the recent trends in the field of transgenic in fruit crops. | Transgenics in fruit crops research - A review
