India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > News > What is best for creating drought resistant plants? Traditional breeding or GM? > What is best for creating drought resistant plants? Traditional breeding or GM?

What is best for creating drought resistant plants? Traditional breeding or GM? [1]

Reports show that traditional breeding techniques are years ahead of GM technologies in developing crops to withstand drought and poor soils, writes Lawrence Woodward.

Publication Date: 
06/10/2014
Environment News Network [2]
Tags:
Agriculture [3], GM Crops [4], Droughts [5], Maize [6], Africa [7]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/what-best-creating-drought-resistant-plants-traditional-breeding-or-gm

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/what-best-creating-drought-resistant-plants-traditional-breeding-or-gm
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/environment-news-network
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gm-crops
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/droughts
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/maize
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa