Afreen Sultana
Botany
June 2024
Disease-resistant breeding is a top goal since crop diseases are becoming more common and posing serious problems to the agricultural industry. Traditional breeding techniques are frequently inefficient and sluggish, especially when it comes to commercially significant crops like sugarcane and tobacco. Because in vitro methods allow for regulated breeding conditions, genetic engineering, and early pathogen detection, they provide a quicker and more accurate means of creating disease-resistant cultivars. This study investigates how modern genetic engineering methods like CRISPR, somaclonal variation, mutant breeding, and plant tissue culture might hasten the production of disease-resistant tobacco and sugarcane variants. Diseases like sugarcane red rot and tobacco mosaic virus may be effectively treated using methods like callus culture, somatic embryogenesis, and micropropagation. Through the combination of targeted gene editing and pathogen screening, in vitro techniques provide novel approaches to sustainable agriculture, boosting crop output and resilience.
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