Applications of the Biotechnology in Agriculture

Abstract

Farmers with 10,000 years of age have been cultivating,wild plants by selecting and breeding for certain features. In the twentieth century, breeding became difficult, as the characteristics of the breeders selected include increased yield, disease and pest tolerance, drought resistance, etc. Traits are transferred from one generation to the next by genes made of DNA (Mariani et al., 1990). About 12,000 years ago, our predator-larger families started to try their hand at culturing. First, wild types of crops such as peas, barley and lentils were grown, and wild animals such as goats and wild oxen were collected. ... At the end of the day, they moved outward, extending farming to areas of Europe and Asia. Biotechnology typically involves a wide variety of technologies and methods for the production of useful facilities, living organisms. The incorporation of biotechnology to agriculture allows effective use of scarce resources, decreases required the pesticides and insecticides and increases productivity ( Vasey, 1992 ).