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1(A Lot More than Just GM Crops) Agricultural Biotechnology2 All living organisms have the ability to improve themselves through natural means in order to adapt to changing environmental conditions. However, it takes hundreds of years before any detectable improvement is obtained. Man then learned how to domesticate and breed plants in order to develop crops to his own liking and needs using various means including Biotechnology . Biotechnology is defined as a set of tools that uses living organisms (or parts of organisms) to make or modify a product, improve plants , trees or animals, or develop microorganisms for specific uses. Agricultural Biotechnology is the term used in crop and livestock improvement through Biotechnology tools. This monograph will focus only on Agricultural crop Biotechnology . Biotechnology encompasses a number of tools and elements of conventional breeding techniques, bioinformatics, microbiology, molecular genetics, biochemistry, plant physiology, and molecular biology.
plant physiology, and molecular biology. The biotechnology tools that ... of N fertilizer, chemical pesticide and mechanization, corn grain yield has constantly increased by 1.9 bushels/acre/ ... “introduction” and then on “FAO/IAEA Mutant Variety Database.” ...
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