Tomatoes are another crop that carry genetically altered genes. The Flounder gene, for example, reduces damage to this crop by increasing the tomatoes to freezing. Another gene that affects tomatoes comes from a virus that encourages resistance to disease. Finally like in corn and potatoes above, tomato plants contain a bacteria gene, which reduces the damage that insects can do to tomato plants. Another crop that has been altered by the transferring of other organisms is rice.
Rice contains a gene from beans or peas.
This gene causes the grain of rice to create more cells to store more protein molecules. The second gene that is transferred to rice is a gene from bacteria, which again reduces the damage that is caused by insects. A final crop that is engineered to make it better is tobacco. There is only one given source of engineering that tobacco gets and that is from a Chinese hamster. The purpose of this gene is to increase sterol production.