Shunyuan Xiao

Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology, University of Maryland, Rockville, Uzbekistan

Publications
  • Editorial   
    Current Trends in Genetically Modification in Crops
    Author(s): Shunyuan Xiao*

    Genetically modified crops (GM crops) are vegetation used in agribusiness, the DNA of which has been changed the utilization of hereditary designing strategies. In most extreme cases, the objective is to acquaint a fresh out of the plastic new characteristic with the plant which does now no longer emerge naturally in the species. Farmers have extensively followed GM technology. Acreage accelerated from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to 185.1 million hectares in 2016, a few 12% of worldwide cropland. As of 2016, important crop (soybean, maize, canola and cotton) trends encompass herbicide tolerance (95.9 million hectares) insect resistance (25.2 million hectares), or both (58.5 million hectares). In the past, conventional strategies which make use of residing organisms of their herbal shape has been used for food, drink, and dairy manufacturing, while th.. View more»

    DOI: 10.35248/2329-6682.9.e118

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