Plant Biotechnology
The earth can be seen as an ecological system which includes the birth/death rates, water/air management, minerals/energy, and plant/animal life. When there is an imbalance in one of these systems, problems can arise. The plant/animal subsystem has four components: Food and population, minerals and energy, excretory, and biotechnology. The food and population system is the ratio between the calories of the living and human behavior. Currently, 1 trillion calories of food are needed per day. The energy and mineral system is comprised of the use of fuels, metal and resources that humans need to survive. The excretory system is the waste and pollution produced from the other subsystems. For example, the agriculture industry impacts the soil and climate of the environments. Pesticides seep into the ground water and linger in foods causing precious resources to be lost. In order to sustain the ecological system, water, soil and sunlight are needed to produce food. The ways to increase the production of food are to increase the acres under cultivation or to increase the yield of current crops. To do this, the fourth system of biotechnology is necessary to ease the strain on the other three systems because it conserv
The daily goal of IRRI is to improve the well-being of rice farmers and consumers with low incomes. They have estimated that rice production must increase 70% over the next 30 years to keep up with the current demand trends [20]. The only way to achieve this would be through new plant biotechnology. To accomplish their task, IRRI created IGR (International Rice Genebank), in which more than 80,000 samples of rice from 110 countries are maintained [21]. About 95% of the collection consists of two types of rice: Asian and African. Rouhi, A. Maureen. "Biotechnology Steps up the Pace of Rice Research." C&EN Beckher, Gerhold. Changing Nature's Course. Honk Kong: Hong Kong University
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