Tissue culture for crops project (TCCP)

Biotechnology can contribute significantly to the doubling of world food production that is likely to be needed in the next 40-50 years. In Africa, for example, the major constraints to rapid increases in food production - drought, salinity, diseases, insect pests - can potentially be overcome by using genetic engineering to adapt species to virtually all climatic and growing conditions. Crop species could also be developed that would produce greater yields, have improved nitrogen fixation properties, and be capable of growing on smaller plots. These proceedings of the Third IPBNet Conference highlight the role of tissue culture and other novel biotechnologies in this effort. Included are formal papers in three areas: (1) plant breeding and genetics, including papers on maize breeding for stress tolerance, grain legume breeding, and sorghum breeding for stress tolerance; (2) tissue culture technology, including papers on the role of micropropagation in commercialization and on in vitro selection and field evaluation in cereal and legume tissue culture; and (3) novel biotechnologies, including papers on biotechnology and potato improvement, genetic approaches to stress tolerance

Source: DEC abstract, PN-ABC-417 (1989). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.