Friday, July 25, 2008

Agriculture biotechnology

Agriculture biotechnology is a technology that has been regarded as part of the ''sustainable productivity equation'' in agriculture.It present applications in agriculture include conventional breeding,tissue culture and micropropagation,molecular breeding or marker -assisted selection,plant disease diognostic,genetic engineering and production of GM crops.
Many countries focus their biotechnology research on food crops and crops of high commercial value in the hope of meeting increasing food reguirement and reducing poverty,particularly among resource-poor farming households.the malaysian government strongly believes that biotechnology will propel the country into the new frontier of economic growth current research priority areas in agricultural biotechnology include tissue culture, molecular marker technology and genetic engineering for plant improvement.

http://http://www.biotechnology.com

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