Connotation of agricultural biotechnology and the effects of transgenic agricultural biotechnology

Abstract

Technical progress is an inexhaustible source of agricultural development.According to the determinants,structure and changing type,agricultural biotechnology falls into traditional agricultural biotechnology(genetic breeding technology) and modern agricultural biotechnology(transgenic biotechnology).Different causes of the advance of agricultural biotechnology resulting from different mechanism follow different consequences,of which the possible socioeconomic effects should be scrutinized and treated seriously.