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Plant molecular breeding: objectives, safety issues and prospects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2002

FRANCISCO GARCÍA-OLMEDO
FRANCISCO GARCÍA-OLMEDO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biotecnología de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid E. T. S. Ingenieros Agrónomos. 28040 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Plant molecular breeding represents a new technology that adds to, rather than substitutes for, traditional breeding practice, and shares with it the same long-standing objectives: higher yield, better products, better-adapted plants. Additionally, it allows the consideration of completely new applications: pharmaceuticals, industrial products and bioremediation processes. Safety issues and the socio-economic prospects of this new technology are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , July 2002 , pp. 409 - 416
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2002

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