With the rapidly growing population, biotechnology is playing a crucial role in improving crop production. Compared to conventional plant breeding methods, it has greatly helped.
To improve a crop's yield and other agronomic characteristics, plant breeding generally required a long period of time.
Introducing new methods like marker-assisted selection (MAS), and direct, indirect gene transformation methods via gene guns or other microorganisms helped shorten this long time frame.
As a result of biotechnology, the long period of breeding, where it would generally take many years to get the required blend of parental characters has been replaced.
By using biotechnology, we can now precisely isolate the gene and insert it into the target plant.
The use of biotechnology for crop improvement includes a variety of procedures and sources, such as chemical bombardment and lipofection.
In order to achieve ideal results, the bioagents transfer the desired genes to the targeted crop variety. It is genetically modified plants with unique characteristics that are called biotech plants.
These characters are heritable and transferable from generation to generation because their genetic material is modified.