Biotechnology can be defined as a scientific technique that is used to make or modify the products of living organisms in order to improve plants or animals or to develop useful microorganisms.
The advances made in biotechnology results in crops with a wide range of desirable traits that can directly benefit farmers, consumers and the environment besides increasing global food production and quality.
Biotech scientists are exploring the genetic modification of food crops to achieve desirable characteristics like high yield, increased protein or oil production, disease and pest resistance, etc. There are few commercial products that have been marketed for use in plant agriculture as well, with the main focus placed on the production of plants that are resistant to specific herbicides.
This developed resistance allows crops to be sprayed with a particular herbicide to kill only weeds and not the genetically engineered crop species. Resistance to viral plant diseases are induced in the crop species by transforming plants with portions of the viral genome that are resistant to that particular virus.
The National Institute of Science Media (NISM) is a leading publisher of study resources on the various branches of science. The lead author, Joel Ball, is a well-established authority on biotechnology and has been at the fore-front of all the research and titles that have been published under the NISM name.
To know more about other NISM publications you can click here.
The advances made in biotechnology results in crops with a wide range of desirable traits that can directly benefit farmers, consumers and the environment besides increasing global food production and quality.
Biotech scientists are exploring the genetic modification of food crops to achieve desirable characteristics like high yield, increased protein or oil production, disease and pest resistance, etc. There are few commercial products that have been marketed for use in plant agriculture as well, with the main focus placed on the production of plants that are resistant to specific herbicides.
This developed resistance allows crops to be sprayed with a particular herbicide to kill only weeds and not the genetically engineered crop species. Resistance to viral plant diseases are induced in the crop species by transforming plants with portions of the viral genome that are resistant to that particular virus.
The National Institute of Science Media (NISM) is a leading publisher of study resources on the various branches of science. The lead author, Joel Ball, is a well-established authority on biotechnology and has been at the fore-front of all the research and titles that have been published under the NISM name.
To know more about other NISM publications you can click here.
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