AICRP on Chickpea Centre, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author: meenakshirlbcau@gmail.com
Online published on 27 September, 2018.
Disease management of crops significantly contributes to increase in food production to keep pace with the growing human population. The applications of recent developments in biotechnology are imperative for detection, identification, prevention and control of plant diseases. The use of biotechnology also opens up the possibility to produce disease free plants by tissue culture, besides conferring resistance against several diseases that affect important crops through conventional breeding and/or genetic engineering. Although the debate about various facets of biotechnology often circle around the economics, risks and consequences associated with use of various approaches, but what matters most is how they are used.
The review provides application and overview of biotechnology for priming disease management of crops.
Biotechnology, disease diagnosis, genetic engineering, plant diseases, resistance, tissue culture
