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1. Plant biotechnology can reduce a number of undesirable food components, such as one of the major allergenic proteins in rice or the major allergens in peanut or soybeans.
2. Components such as caffeine from coffee beans can be eliminated by using plant biotechnology.
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Download Solution PDFPlant biotechnology is a set of techniques used to adapt plants for specific needs or opportunities. Plant biotechnologies that assist in developing new varieties and traits include genetics and genomics, marker-assisted selection (MAS), and transgenic (genetic engineered) crops.
- Plant biotechnology can reduce a number of undesirable food components, such as one of the major allergenic proteins in rice or the major allergens in peanut or soybeans.
- Components such as caffeine from coffee beans can be eliminated or reduced to provide a coffee with no or a very low caffeine level without using chemical extraction
- Plant breeding and biotechnology can be used to improve energy crops to increase yield, improve tolerance to pests and drought, to alter the characteristics of the plants (e.g. percentage of lignin, oil content, cell structure) making it more efficient to convert them to liquid biofuels.
- Plant breeding promotes the most essential traits for a bioenergy crop such as high yield of biomass, but also improvements such as single annual harvest, recycling more nutrients back into roots before harvest, delayed harvest or disease resistance.
Many of the breeding and development efforts for bioenergy crops emphasize perennial crops and target lands that are marginal or less ideal for food or livestock production, such as land that is excessively wet or dry, acid soils, or highly erodible soils.
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