Examples

Cold Tolerance – In tobacco and potato plants, an antifreeze gene from cold water fish has being transgenically introduced, allowing both crops to withstand much lower temperatures

Pharmaceuticals- Producing edible GMOs that contain vaccines and medicines are not only easier to produce, but easier to ship, ingest, and cheaper.

Phytoremediation- There have been plants produced, such as the poplar tree, that now absorb many unhealthy heavy metals from the soil and does not cause damage to the tree, but is harbored there