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What biotechnology means for soil and water conservation

L. F. Elliott and R. E. Wildung
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation January 1992, 47 (1) 17-20;
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TEN years, ago, the term biotechnology was relatively obscure. Now it appears almost daily, in the financial news and elsewhere. What is biotechnology, and why the recent interest in it?.

Several definitions for biotechnology have been proposed. Webster's Dictionary defines biotechnology as “the use of the data and techniques of engineering and technology for the study and solution of problems concerning living organisms.” The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (3) defines it as “technology concerning the application of biological and engineering techniques to microorganisms, plants, and animals. Sometimes used in the narrower sense of genetic engineering.” Both definitions allow broad interpretation.

People associate biotechnology with the insertion of a gene from one organism into another. But this is only one facet of the developing linkage between biology and technology. Moreover, biotechnology and related sciences are perceived as recent advancements, which is not necessarily the case. Biotechnology has been in use for centuries. Cheeses, silage, leavened bread, and sauerkraut, are only a few examples.

Other applications of biotechnology are of more recent origin but well established in modern agriculture. One example includes inoculation of legumes for symbiotic dinitrogen fixation.

The recent excitement surrounding biotechnology …

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  • L. E Elliot is u research leader with the National Forage Seed Production Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, US. Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-7102 and R. E. Wildung IS director, Environmental Sciences Research Center, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352. Research on which this article is based was supported by the Office of Health and Environmental Research, US. Department of Energy (DOE). Pacific Northwest Laboratory is operated for the DOE by Battelle Memorial Institute under contract DE-AC-06-76RLO 1830.

  • Copyright 1992 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society

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