Opportunities and Scenarios for Plant Biotechnology Applications

Plant biotechnology represent one of a number of competing technological approaches to addressing a particular agronomic problem but however, as an example, a particular pest problem might equally be addressed through conventional plant breeding, through a transgenic approach, or through an integrated crop management (ICM) approach or any combination of these.

Biotechnologies as cell and tissue culture, molecular genome analysis, plant genetic transformation, molecular plant disease diagnosis and germplasm  cryo-conservation coupled with plant breeding and physiological integrated crop management, can be successfully used to cope genetic erosion, to reinforce ex-situ collections and in in-situ conservation, to upgrade the supply of improved and healthy seed and planting materials to farmers and to integrate a new approach into the development programmes for food production and food security in mountain lands.

Regards

Joseph Mareddy

Assistant Managing Editor

Journal of Plant Biochemistry and physiology