Dr. Bruce R. Thomas, American River College

Summary

All domesticated plants have been genetically modified through the

use of breeding technology

Biotechnology methods provide new tools for improvement of crops

Tissue culture, recombinant DNA, genomics methods,

transgenic plant methods

Biotechnology tools provide many advantages

better crops with new and improved traits

better utilization of gene pool resources

increase in the size of the gene pool

faster production of new crop varieties

lower cost production of new crop varieties

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