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Applications of Green Biotechnology
The main goal of green biotechnology is the production of an improved variety of plants, with the help of biotechnology based techniques that should be environmentally friendly solutions.
Most Important Applications Of Green Biotechnology:
1. Micropropagation
Micropropagation is the true type of propagation of selected genotypes using small pieces of tissues which can use as an important technique for rapid production of many commercially important plants like fruits and medicinal plants.
2. Production of synthetic and artificial seeds:
Synthetic seeds offer a potential technology towards the use of somatic embryogenesis for large scale propagation of plants through automation. An artificial seed is analogous to true seeds in which a somatic embryo is encapsulated with a coating material, which protects the embryos against desiccation and mechanical injury.
3. Production of secondary metabolites:
Production of diverse secondary metabolites like alkaloids, tannins, flavones, etc from plant cell and tissue culture is yet to achieve at industrial level status.
4. Production of transgenic plants for varietal improvement:
By developing of genetically modified crops. Transgenic plants are aimed at improving the productivity and efficiency of crop plants. This technique also improves the nutritional value of the storage of protein by protein engineering.
5. Biofertilizers
Biofertilizers are microorganisms based fertilizers that are eco-friendly by nature. Biofertilizers enhance the availability of nutrients and they are low in cost and they do not pollute the environment. They promote plant growth and protect plants from soil pathogens.
6. Transgenesis:
Transgenesis is a process that involves the insertion of required DNA into other organism's DNA for introducing new genes into the original organisms. Transgenesis helps to create a new variety of plants with desired traits.
7.Biopesticide:
Biopesticides are biological agents that are used to control weeds, insects, and pathogens. The use of biopesticides is helping to reduce the applications of chemicals for the control of the disease in plants.
8.Improve nutritional content:
Under green biotechnology, techniques have been used to improve the nutritional value of crops. With help of these techniques, we can produce crops with a higher concentration of vitamins.
9. Genetic engineering:
Genetic manipulation carried out in plants for the production of transgenic plants is to improve the crops, with the desired traits. With the help of genetic engineering, we can introduce resistance to biotic stresses, resistance to abiotic stresses, improvement in crop yield, improved nutritional value, etc all are varieties can be introduced in required plants.
10. Genome Editing:
Genome editing help to generate and modify the DNA directly within the cell. This helps to develop herbicide-resistant varieties in crops.
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