The agriculture sector has gone through different phases of growth, embracing a wide variety of institutional interventions, and technology and policy regimes. From the late 1960s onwards, the green revolution helped the sector maintain steady growth for more than two decades. But the challenges that swept through the economy in the 1990s after the initiation of economic reforms arrested this growth. Conscious efforts have brought about a recovery of growth since the middle of the first decade of the 2000s.

Our earlier studies reported development of transgenic strawberry for salinity stress and standardization of transformation protocol. In view of the projections of global climate change and their implications on the ability of strawberry to adapt to such changes, we extended our studies to know the possible role of such transgenic plants in contributing to
sustainable strawberry production and also made some basic studies to analyse the behaviour of osmotin (transgene)/in vitro-regenerated transgenic strawberry plants.