Agricultural biotechnology, also referred to as green biotechnology, is biotechnology applied to agricultural processes. Since the advent of agriculture 10 000 years ago, farmers have used biological technology inadvertently in the refinement of methods of farming and crops through cross breeding, and various hybridization techniques.

2001年1月1日 · Biotechnology in the Service of World Agriculture. Oxon, UK, C.A.B. International. From Traditional Methods to Revolutionary Productivity Gains Although Mendel made his observations about inheritance patterns in peas in the mid-1800s, they were lost from the scientific community until botanists redis­covered them in 1900.

2002年9月1日 · Biotechnology offers a great promise to increase the production of secondary metabolites in plants that are used in medicine, aromatic industry, and in host resistance to insect pests and diseases or inhibit the production of toxic metabolites in crop produce meant for food, feed, and fodder.

environmental biotechnology is a good and necessary endeavor. B. biomedical biotechnology is a good and necessary endeavor. C. agricultural biotechnology is a good and necessary endeavor. D. Answers A and B. E. Answers A and C. F. Answers B and C. G. All of the above. H. None of the above. I. It depends. 15. Explain your answer to the previous ...

2020年2月1日 · Biotechnology in the form of several waves, that is, the red, green and white biotechnology has already made a huge impact on the modern society and economy [6]. Green biotechnology enabled the green revolution, that is, a massive yield increase of crops through breeding varieties with, for example, improved agronomic traits, nutritive value ...

2023年3月1日 · The use of AI in agriculture can be categorized into two types: AI software and AI robots [21]. AI robots are used in various activities such as crop scouting, pest and weed management, harvesting, spraying, pruning, milking, phenotyping, and sorting [22]. Most of these robots are still in the early stages of development, and very few have ...

2023年3月1日 · While pioneering methodologies and tools spanning from precision agriculture (Erickson and Fausti, 2021), vertical farming (Oh and Lu, 2023; Rameshkumar et al., 2020), and biotechnology (Tyczewska et al., 2023) hold promise, it is paramount to seamlessly weave them into our agricultural fabric.

Biotechnology is the rapidly growing segment and has diversified applications in sustainable agriculture. This chapter discusses the role of biotechnology, agroecology, and plant–microbial interaction for sustainable agriculture. For the growing world population, an intensive agricultural production is necessary to satisfy food requirements.

2020年8月1日 · We conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature on biotechnology in agriculture and forestry following the PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews (Moher et al., 2009). We used the Web of Science to retrieve peer-reviewed scientific publications published between 1989 and December 2017.

2023年1月1日 · Biotechnology can be used to give small farmers in impoverished countries a competitive advantage in sustainable agriculture. This can be done using genes for beneficial traits, which can be integrated into a single genotype through systematic pyramiding, such as stress tolerance, productivity, and nutritional quality.