Biotechnology Application in agriculture: (1) agrochemical based agriculture. (2) organic agriculture: and (3) genetically engineered crop based agriculture. Use of genetically modified plants :- To enhance nutritional quality of food Made crop more tolerant to abiotic stress (cold, drought,salt heat). Help to reduce post harvest loss eg. Flavr savr Tomato:transgenic variety of tomato - flavr savr due to the inhibition of polygalacturonas enzymes which degrade pectin so that tomato variety remain fresh and retain flavour much longer . Flavr savr Tomato develop why antisense Technology . Increase efficiency of mineral uses by plant. To produce bio pharmaceutical product. Produce of Hirudin. Hirudin is a protein that prevents blood clotting. To produce herbicides resistance plant. Pest resistant crop: (1) insect resistance plant example Bt cotton . some strain ...
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