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Biotechnology in the Context of Sustainable Development [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 Humanity has used the biological processes of microorganisms for over 6,000 years to produce wholesome foods such as bread, cheese, and dairy products. Throughout most of the 20th century, the term “biotechnology” continued to be widely used in reference
Dokhtukaeva A. M. +2 more
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Plant Biotechnology and the Environment
EDIS, 2003 The use of plant biotechnology raises a number of environmental issues. The negative issues relative to plant biotechnology include potential harm to non-target organisms, the risk of foreign genes escaping into nature, and development of accelerated ...
Maria Gallo-Meagher, Stephen G. Fulford
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Mitigating tradeoffs in plant breeding
iScience, 2021 Summary: Tradeoffs among plant traits help maintain relative fitness under unpredictable conditions and maximize reproductive success. However, modifying tradeoffs is a breeding challenge since many genes of minor effect are involved.
Sangam Lal Dwivedi +2 more
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Biotechnologically Engineered Plants
Biology, 2023 The development of recombinant DNA technology during the past thirty years has enabled scientists to isolate, characterize, and manipulate a myriad of different animal, bacterial, and plant genes. This has, in turn, led to the commercialization of hundreds of useful products that have significantly improved human health and well-being.
Zareen Narayanan, Bernard R. Glick
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iScience, 2020 Summary: Current crop production systems are prone to increasing pathogen pressure. Fundamental understanding of molecular plant-pathogen interactions, the availability of crop and pathogen genomic information, as well as emerging genome editing permits ...
Dirk Schenke, Daguang Cai
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PLANT TISSUE CULTURE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY: RECENT ADVANCES IN TRANSFORMATION THROUGH SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS [PDF]
Biotechnologia Acta, 2012 Plant genetic transformation has become an important biotechnology tool for the improvement of many crops. A solid foundation for the fast development and implementation of biotechnology in agriculture was provided by achievements in plant tissue culture.
V. A. Sidorov
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Plant Stress and Biotechnology [PDF]
BioMed Research International, 2013 Nowadays plant biotechnology faces many important challenges, including the development of strategies to secure global food supply, the adequate acquisition and management of plant derived products for human subsistence (woods, pharmaceuticals, biofuels, etc.), as well as the development of plants that can cope with the constant effects of biotic and ...
Jiménez Bremont, Juan Francisco +3 more
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On-site applicable diagnostic fluorescent probe for fire blight bacteria
iScience, 2023 Summary: Fire blight is a representative plant infection that contaminates edible plants and causes socio-economic problems in agricultural and livestock industries globally. It is caused by the pathogen Erwinia amylovora (E.
Yuna Jung +9 more
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Scientific innovation for the sustainable development of African agriculture [PDF]
, 2019 The African continent has considerable potential to reap the benefits associated with modern agricultural biotechnology. Plant biotechnology and breeding represent an invaluable toolbox to face the challenges of African agriculture, such as food and ...
De Bauw, Vanessa +8 more
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Plant Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology: Following Mariotti's Steps [PDF]
, 2019 This review is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Domenico Mariotti, who significantly contributed to establishing the Italian research community in Agricultural Genetics and carried out the first experiments of Agrobacterium-mediated plant genetic ...
Caretto, Sofia +11 more
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