Transgenic plants: A new perspective of food as well as Nutritional security to the farmers Kumar Lalan*, Tiwari Snigdha, Pandey Dinesh, Kumar Anil Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and technology, Pantnagar (Uttrakhand) *Corresponding Author Email: lalan53singh@gmail.cm
Online published on 24 November, 2014. Abstract Poverty in developing countries is usually linked to low agricultural productivity. Inadequate quantity and quality of food impacts imparts to reduce human development potential physically as well as mentally. Poor nutrition increases the probability of disease by reduced immunity and a person were paralyzed and kill. Current technologies (fertilizer, improved seed, irrigation, pesticides) correctly applied can sustainably and safely increase crop yields. Purchase cost and infrastructural issues (lack of roads, credit, market access and market affecting trade-distortions), however, severely limit small-scale farmers’ ability to adopt these life-sustaining and life saving technologies. For the first time since the introduction of biotech/GM crops almost two decades ago, developing countries have grown more hectares of biotech crops than industrialized countries, contributing to food security and further alleviating poverty in some of the world's most vulnerable regions. The present review focused on progress made towards development and commercialization of biotech crop for food as well as nutritional security. Top Keywords Genetically modified crop, Cry gene, Nutritional security crops. Top |