Applications of Biotechnology in Agriculture

Biotechnology has the potential to ensure food security, dramatically reduce hunger and malnutrition, and reduce rural poverty. Application of Biotechnology in agriculture mainly centres round in Transgenic crops development, Tissue culture and Molecular markers. This book Applications of Biotechnology in Agriculture covers important areas of biotechnology like Recombinant DNA Technology and RNA silencing and its application in agriculture such as biofuel production insect and disease resistance development in crops, Tissue culture and its application in agriculture and details about marker technology and role in Agriculture. It is expected that the readers will get an overall idea of about biotechnological application in agriculture after reading this book. This book can hardly claim any originality in content, the figures, illustrations, photographs used are collected from various books, different educational websites, journals and review papers published previously for which the author is thankful to the original Contributors.