This review paper contains some of the places of interest of modern plant biotechnology and discusses the possible uses of biotechnology in the betterment of agricultural systems. Plant biotechnology will make easy the farming of crops with numerous strong resistances to pathogens and diseases, mainly in the dearth of pesticides. Similarly, transgenes or marker-assisted assortment may help out ...

Institute of Botany, Department of Plant Cell Biology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany (F.B., J.Š., P.W., D.V., D.M.); Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Akademicka 2, SK–949 01 Nitra, Slovak Republic (J.Š.); Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61–701 Poznań, Poland (P.W.); an...

Developing countries are already benefiting and should continue to benefit significantly from advances in plant biotechnology. Insect-protected cotton containing a natural insecticide protein from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt cotton) is providing millions of farmers with increased yields, reduced insecticide costs and fewer health risks. Many other useful plant biotechnology products that can ben...