Machine Learning for Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

Biotechnology Provides New Tools for Plant Breeding

Biotechnology in its broadest sense refers to the use of living organisms or their components to provide useful products. This definition can include activities as diverse as making wine, beer, or bread; composting organic materials; releasing parasitic wasps to control insect pests; breeding plants or animals; and producing crops and livestock. In fact, agriculture itself can be considered to ...

Impact of Biotechnology on Plant Breeding

The application of modern biotechnology to plant breeding is considered to be more efficient and quicker than conventional breeding techniques in the development of new and more resilient crop varieties. To test the impact that biotechnology is having on a industrial plant breeding activities, we relate firm level Plant Variety Protection Certificate (PVPC) applications to corresponding expendi...

Sequencing Technologies and Their Use in Plant Biotechnology and Breeding

Plant biotechnology From genome projects to molecular breeding

Csaba’s research focuses on the functional analysis of regulatory genes in sugar, stress and steroid hormone signaling using genetic and biochemical approaches in Arabidopsis. Upon completion of the Arabidopsis and rice genome sequences and following the collection of vast amounts of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from crops, medicinal plants and trees, plant science has entered into a qualitat...

New biotechnology enhances the application of cisgenesis in plant breeding

Cisgenesis is genetic modification to transfer beneficial alleles from crossable species into a recipient plant. The donor genes transferred by cisgenesis are the same as those used in traditional breeding. It can avoid linkage drag, enhance the use of existing gene alleles. This approach combines traditional breeding techniques with modern biotechnology and dramatically speeds up the breeding ...