Plant diseases pose a serious threat to food security, biodiversity, and agricultural sustainability. These are caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, and nematodes that may cause severe losses in crops and economic losses. In this regard, biotechnology has emerged as an intervention that promises to change this game, bringing along with it effective ways of fighting plant diseases. This article examines ...
The word ‘farming’ takes our mind to the image of widely open expanses of land, tractors tilting the ground, and farmers harvesting crops under the extremely hot sun. Agriculture has long been the backbone of human civilization. With such exponential rates of the increase in population globally, conventional practices are by now already sweating. That is where biotechnology is likely ...