Biotechnology in Agriculture

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Abstract

Population growth, which is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, in addition to issues of sustainability and global warming, challenge us to increase the supply of food. An alternative approach to help reduce the impact of this scenario involves biotechnology, which in recent decades has brought remarkable technological opportunities in agriculture that resulted in relevant development in obtaining new plant varieties, improved quality of different foods, and now also in bioenergy. the biotechnology techniques involving molecular markers, genomics and genetic transformation are transforming agriculture and will be discussed in this article.