Biotechnology in Agriculture, Revolutionized Research Activities, Transgenic Plants, Herbicide Resistance, Nitrogen Fixing Ability

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Biotechnology in agriculture

Biotechnology has also revolutionized research activities in the area of agriculture which includes the following:

(i) plant cell, tissue and organ culture;

(ii) genetic engineering leading to transformation followed by regeneration of plants to give transgenic plants carrying desirable traits like disease resistance, insect resistance and herbicide resistance; eventually this may also be used for increasing photosynthetic efficiency, nitrogen fixing ability, improved storage proteins, hybrid crops, crops for food processing, etc.

(iii) somatic hybrids between sexually incompatible species, permitting transfer of desirable traits from wild or unrelated crop species to our crop plants;

(iv) transgenic animals produced in mice, pigs, goats, chicken, cows, etc; it is suggested that some of these will eventually be used as bioreactors to produce drugs through their milk, blood or urine;

this area has sometimes been described as molecular farming.

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