HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Crops use more nutrients.
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Crops need more fertilizer
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Crops resist more diseases.
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Crops take more time to grow
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which is the most useful change made to crops using applications of biotechnology? Crops use more nutrients.
Detailed explanation-2: -Relative to a susceptible plant, disease resistance is the reduction of pathogen growth on or in the plant (and hence a reduction of disease), while the term disease tolerance describes plants that exhibit little disease damage despite substantial pathogen levels.
Detailed explanation-3: -Biotechnology can also be used to generate crops that are resistant to plant diseases. So far, there are only two examples of disease resistance available to farmers: the papayas resistant to ringspot virus and squash resistant to zucchini yellow mosaic and watermelon mosaic viruses.
Detailed explanation-4: -Disease-Free Plants. Disease-free plants are a very practical applications of biotechnology, these could be produced by micropropagation method. Agriculture on acid soils. Fortification of Crops. Animal Feed. Reproduction in Aquaculture. Pest Resistant Crops. Drought Resistant Crops. Biofuel. More items •11-Jan-2022