Genetic engineering: An insight of vegetable biotechnology
Bichhinna Maitri Rout*
Division of Vegetable Science, Ph.D. Scholar, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi-110012, India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: traditional, crop, genetic engineering, breeding
Abstract
As the world population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, traditional agricultural technologies will be inadequate to feed the growing human population. Traditional methods of plant breeding for crop improvement has many limitations and is time consuming (10-15 years). However, the use of genetic engineering is less time consuming (2-3 years) and more selective in obtaining improved traits, but proper scientific testing is required.
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