Plant Physiology, Biotechnology and Crop Improvement

Proteomics: a biotechnology tool for crop improvement

A sharp decline in the availability of arable land and sufficient supply of irrigation water along with a continuous steep increase in food demands have exerted a pressure on farmers to produce more with fewer resources. A viable solution to release this pressure is to speed up the plant breeding process by employing biotechnology in breeding programs. The majority of biotechnological applicati...

rNAi Biotechnology: Pros and Cons for Crop Improvement

Biotechnology for improved management of plant diseases has the potential to reduce dependency of commercial and noncommercial growers on pesticides and to enhance food security for an increasing global population . APS has long opposed regulating food, feed, and fi ber products based solely on the particular technology that was used to create the varieties/cultivars (www .apsnet .org/members/o...

A phosphate starvation‐driven bidirectional promoter as a potential tool for crop improvement and in vitro plant biotechnology

Phosphate (Pi)-deficient soils are a major limitant factor for crop production in many regions of the world. Despite that plants have innovated several developmental and biochemical strategies to deal with this stress, there are still massive extensions of land which combine several abiotic stresses, including phosphate starvation, that limit their use for plant growth and food production. In s...

Crop biotechnology. Where now?

Nature Biotechnology organized a conference in London on Agobiotech 99: Biotechnology and World Agriculture (November 14-16, 1999). The conference focused entirely on crop biotechnology and covered both societal and scientific aspects. Below is an account of the more important issues raised by the speakers and the audience.

Crop Genetics And Physiology