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Abstract

Plant biotechnology is an essential tool that allows agriculture improvement by increasing food production through tissue culture, molecular biology, and crop improvement. At present, agriculture is facing many problems that affect food production seriously; some of these problems are degradation of soils, salinity, contamination with heavy metals and hydrocarbons, drought, desertification, deforestation, and one of the solutions is biotechnology. This chapter will discuss aspects related to sustainable agriculture and food challenge, plant biotechnology, and plant biotechnology and sustainability. First, the incidence of agriculture is analyzed, on the one hand, in the reduction of hunger, and on the other, in the degradation of the environment, which can only be resolved through a sustainable model. Secondly, the most relevant applications of modern biotechnology in the accelerated propagation of plants, germplasm conservation, and genetic improvement are described. Next, both elements are linked, and it is analyzed how biotechnology can contribute to sustainability through modern technologies. The contribution of modern biotechnologies to sustainability in agriculture is illustrated through the presentation of examples of work done with the genus Lupinus. This genus comprises species useful for sustainable agriculture, which serve as a source of proteins and secondary metabolites, as well as in crop rotation. This chapter shows some of the results achieved in the multiplication and in vitro conservation of species from Lupinus, as examples of the application of biotechnology with an environment friendly approach.

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Abbreviations

2,4-D:

2,4-dichloro phenoxy acetic acid

AFLP:

Amplified fragment length polymorphism

BA:

Benzyladenine

Bt:

Bacillus thuringiensis

CH:

Casein hydrolysate

CRISPR:

Clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeats

DCR:

Douglas-fir cotyledon revised

g l−1:

Grams per liter

GM:

Genetic modified

GMCs:

Genetically modified crops

GMOs:

Genetically modified organisms

H2SO4:

Sulfuric acid

IAA:

Indoleacetic acid

IBA:

Indol-3-butyric acid

ITS2:

Internal transcribed spacer 2

kg ha−1:

Kilograms per hectare

Kin:

Kinetin

mg l−1:

Milligrams per liter

MS:

Murashige and Skoog

NAA:

Naphthaleneacetic acid

PCR:

Polymerase chain reaction

PPT:

Glufosinate ammonium

RAPD:

Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA

RFLP:

Restriction fragment length polymorphism

RNA:

Ribonucleic acid

SI:

Sustainable intensification

SSN:

Sequence-specific nucleases

SSRs:

Simple sequence repeats

TAL:

Transcription-activator-like

TALEN:

Transcription-activator-like effector nucleases

TDZ:

Thidiazuron

ZFN:

Zinc-finger nucleases

μg l−1:

Micrograms per liter

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