Description

The biotechnology business is using all of its potential on a worldwide scale. This quickly integrating cutting-edge technology is bringing about unique advances in agricultural development, security, and healthcare, as well as in food and nutrition. A significant area of agricultural biotechnology is plant biotechnology, which focuses on many aspects of plant tissue culture, genetic engineering, and molecular biology methods. The development, preservation, and use of genetic diversity for the enhancement of field, fruit, vegetable, and forest crops as well as medicinal and aromatic plants is made possible through tissue culture techniques. Using micropropagation ensures that plants with unique characteristics multiply quickly and in large numbers, true to kind. The use of selective breeding to exchange genetic material between two parent plants and produce offspring with desired traits, such as increased yields, disease resistance, and improved product quality, has traditionally been the method used to apply biotechnology to agriculturally significant crop species. The two plants being crossed (bred) must be of the same species or closely related species in order for the genetic material to be exchanged. It is hoped that this book will be of great use to people who are either enrolled in plant biotechnology courses or working on it.