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Keywords: the bruchid life cycle, seed defenses, origin of starchy seed legumes and bruchid species, bruchid species worldwide and their hosts, phytohemagglutinin, arcelin, and α-amylase inhibitor seed defense proteins of the common bean, evolutionary relationships between αAl, αAl-like proteins, phytohemagglutinin, and arcelins, expression of PHA, arcelin and αAl in developing bean seeds and seeds of transgenic tobacco plants, responses of cowpea weevil larvae developing on artificial diets with and without αAl, αAl forms and a small gene family in P. vulgaris, its wild accessions and closely related species in the genus Phaseolus, the molecular structure of αAl and its binding to α-amylase, transfer of bruchid resistance from beans to peas by genetic engineering with αAl gene, responsiveness of cowpea weevil larvae developing on transgenic pea seeds that express various levels of αAl, can beans be made resistant to new world bruchids with αAl genes?, will αAl-containing legumes be safe to eat!