Food Chemistry and Food Microbiology

Plant Biotechnology

Plant biotechnology is the technique used to manipulate the plants for specific needs or requirement. In traditional process seed is the major source for germinating a new plant but the advance method is independent that combines multiple needs to get the required traits. Plant biotechnology meets the challenge that includes genomics, genetic engineering, tissue culture, and transgenic crops etc. These biotechnological applications allow researchers to detect and map genes and discover their functions, selection of specific genes in genetic resources and its breeding and to customize the plant according to the requirement by transferring the genes of specific traits to combine with others to create a new species. The recent advances in plant biotechnology provide potential way to make improvements much more quickly than conventional plant breeding techniques. Plant tissue culture is a part of plant biotechnology which is the collection of many techniques that is used to maintain and grow plant, plant cells, plant tissues under controlled sterile conditions over the nutrient medium.