Abstract
Agricultural biotechnology is the term used in crop and livestock improvement through biotechnology tools. Biotechnology encompasses a number of tools and elements of conventional breeding techniques, bioinformatics, microbiology, molecular genetics, biochemistry, plant physiology, and molecular biology. The biotechnological tools that are important for agricultural biotechnology include conventional plant breeding, tissue culture and micropropagation, molecular breeding or marker-assisted selection, and genetic engineering and GM crops. In this chapter, readers would learn about the role of biotechnology in crop improvement and the major applications of the field.
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