Friday, July 30, 2010

Biotechnological Plants and Their Application Fields


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Biotechnology has made remarkable developments in its various application fields. Its power to produce high quality food crops through the techniques such as hybridization and artificial breeding has brought significant contributions to the global market. By using plant biotechnology and genetic engineering methods, it has provided ultimate drug facilities to the pharmaceutical world and life science industries.

There has been a growing concern on handling the current issues related to the breeding of both pharma plants for medicinal purpose and food crops for agricultural purpose. Several research facilities are emerging out as a part of the monitoring objectives of genetically modified processes. New traits are focused to create improved quality plant materials and to reduce the risks of radiation effects of potential botanical resources used for drug production on food crops.

Effective reproduction and regeneration of pharma plants requires certain experiments to be followed. This inspection basically deals with the modification of plant genome. Various biomarkers such as isozymes and DNA are used to provide spatial distribution of pharma plants. Special efforts are made on transgene expression and to gain adequate knowledge on the ways to reduce tests variance, which resulted out when gene expression is employed on newly inserted gene in transgenic plants.

Biotechnology involves three broad steps in dealing with plant pathology. The plant cell-tissue culture, monoclonal antibodies production and manipulation of nucleic acids form these major stages of pathological solutions. Various techniques have been developed over several years to assist plant cell-tissue culture. Physiological and biochemical manipulations are also carried out to construct plant pathology. Various monoclonal antibodies from plants are more specific and sensitive as compared to polyclonal antibodies. They are effective in disease diagnosis, in identifying pathogens, and in exploring the physiology of host-parasite relations.

Past few years have witnessed the increasing concern of global trends to provide protection to plants. The seed industries and major agricultural sectors which implements biotechnological tools have also presented effective plant protection solutions.




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