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Benefits of Plant Biotechnology in Agriculture

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There have been indications of positive achievements using plant biotechnology, as analyzed in the previous article. … Read More » Benefits of Plant Biotechnology in Agriculture Modern civilization would be impossible without the domestication of a small number of plants, particularly wheat, rice, and maize.…

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Effect Management of Genetic Erosion and Plant Biotechnology

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Plants have been improved through technological advancements, as all biological processes of plants offer potential targets for biotechnological modification and enhancement.

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Historical Perspectives on Agricultural Biotechnology

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Tropical deforestation accounts for 20 percent of the worlds greenhouse gas emissions and the loss of essential terrestrial and freshwater resources for… Read More » Historical Perspectives on Agricultural Biotechnology

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Importance and Strategies in Forest Biotechnology and Conservation

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While intensive forestry and biotechnology are not panaceas, in the absence of concerted… Read More » Importance and Strategies in Forest Biotechnology and Conservation This suggests that the total value in plantations is not simply a financial equation.

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Applications of Plant Biotechnology in Forestry

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In the last article, the benefits of biotechnology to different human groups surviving in various environments were considered. Biotechnology is an artificial process of recombining genes from different organisms by bypassing natural barriers to sexual reproduction.

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Climate and food security concerns prompting new openness to technology in agriculture

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Approval of a biotechnology reform bill in the European Parliament last month has been hailed as a major breakthrough toward allowing “new genomic techniques,” such as gene-editing, to be used in crop breeding in Europe. The bill still faces an uphill battle to become law across the European Union, but the vote was one example.

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New culture project launched to support women in wheat research

Agri-tech

Empowering the UK wheat community to achieve gender parity, a progressive culture improvement initiative led by the John Innes Centre (JIC), The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) and Rothamsted Research, has secured funding from the UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).