@article{Hammerschlag:259224,
      recid = {259224},
      author = {Hammerschlag, F.A. },
      title = {THE ROLE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN CROP IMPROVEMENT},
      address = {1990-07-29},
      number = {1933-2017-1741},
      pages = {10},
      year = {1990},
      abstract = {For thousands of years conventional breeding techniques  have been used to improve crop plants. Emerging  biotechnologies enable us to work at the whole plant as  well as the organ, tissue, cell, protoplast, chromosome and  gene levels in our efforts to modify plants. Biotechnology  has loosely been defined to include a collection of  techniques including gene mapping, recombinant DNA,  Aqrobacteriummediated gene transfer of recombinant DNA, DNA  and chromosome microinjection, microprojectile bombardment,  protoplast fusion, selection for somaclonal variation,  embryo rescue, anther culture and micropropagation. Plants  with disease resistance, pest resistance, herbicide  tolerance, drought tolerance and increased yield have been  produced using one or a combination of these techniques.  The application of several of these techniques to the  improvement of peach will be discussed. Plant breeding in  combination with biotechnology provide a bright future for  the improvement of crop plants.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/259224},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.259224},
}