Role of Biotechnology in Combating Diseases of Crops

Badri Khanal[1] Abstract: Plant biotechnologist are facing many challenges in development of disease resistant crop varieties. Unlike many insect resistant and herbicide tolerance cultivars, disease resistant has only been success in few crop cultivars. Lot of efforts have been put by conventional breeding, but genetic engineering (GE) techniques are more effective. Some of the common techniques are: recombinant-DNA, RNA-interference, monococol...

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