Abstract
Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that includes the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in agriculture, engineering, medicine and many other fields demand novel bioproducts. The development of DNA-based techniques, generally known as biotechnology. In early of 1990 and in agriculture field, biotechnology is obviously fitting the broad definition of using a biotechnological system to make newly and novel products. The genetic modified plant is one of the most renowned examples in agriculture field which created by transferring a desirable gene in plant genomic in order to produce desirable protein (s) that governors specific function in the plant system. For decades, scientists have used traditional breeding to improve the production and crop quality in order to use them for food consumption. In this type of breeding, organisms with desirable traits are mated to produce individuals carry the same traits.Many other applications of biotechnology have been reported in various fields viz, organisms and organism by-products that used to fertilize and restore nitrogen in soil. In insect research field, the biotechnological tools have been applied to study various issues such insect identification, insect control and insect genetic relationships. Bt Cry1Ac modified cotton plant (Bollgard I) was the primary example to control American bollworm; Helicoverpa armigera pest. Thus, exploiting such technology in the field of Entomology could help scientists in understanding various physiological mechanisms occurred in insect.
Highlights
Biotechnology as a tool has created from many disciplines like genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, bio-informatics, biochemistry etc
Biotechnology has been applied in agriculture as a breakthrough measure towards sustainable agriculture through genetic manipulations process
Though biotechnology was considered as a novel technology that going to guide us in a new era of agricultural with negligible harm to the environment, the initial outcome of genetically manipulated products has proven to be save and modest
Summary
Biotechnology as a tool has created from many disciplines like genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, bio-informatics, biochemistry etc. Biotechnology has been applied in agriculture as a breakthrough measure towards sustainable agriculture through genetic manipulations process. For the last two decades, enormous genes have been identified and isolated and are available for transformation process in order to improve specific traits in the targeted organisms. This technology is mainly used to modify crops, while a several applications are still in considerations.
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