Biotechnology is being used to address problems in all areas of agricultural production and processing. This includes plant breeding to raise and stabilize yields; to improve resistance to pests, diseases and abiotic stresses such as drought and cold; and to enhance the nutritional content of foods.Traditional biotechnology remains the technology of choice for the most important agronomic traits. ... Modern biotechnology is applied in medicine and healthcare in therapeutics, mainly for the discovery, development and production of novel drugs, and in diagnostics, for protein and nucleic acids based tests.Today, modern biotechnology offers more precise and faster methods to establish improved foods that are abundant, tasty, safe and nutritious. As scientists learned more about DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the genetic coding in living things, that knowledge has been applied to growing produce.
