African Journal of Food Science and Technology

Werkissa Yali

Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Chiro National Sorghum Research and Training Center, Chiro, Ethiopia

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• Research   
  Genetic engineering it?s application, importance and future aspects in modern Crop improvement
  Author(s): Werkissa Yali*
  
  Society is undergoing dramatic transformations as a result of advances in molecular genetics and genetic manipulation. The most widely used genetically altered features allow plants to create their own pesticide, decreasing crop losses due to insect attack, or to resist herbicides, allowing herbicides to be used to kill a wide range of weeds without damaging crops. Those characteristics have been included into most soybean, corn, and cotton types. Genetic engineering could be applied in a wider range of crops, in new methods other than herbicide and insect resistance and for a wider range of applications. Many farmers that employ GE crops report that weed control is more cost-effective and that insect pest losses are lower. Traditional methods of breeding and selection to improve crops for intended goals have various advantages over GM technology. GM technology is extremely valuable t.. View More»
  DOI: http:/dx.doi.org/10.14303//ajfst.2022.034

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