Biotechnology is an advanced, multidisciplinary technology that can help solve problems faster than in the past. It has potential to significantly improve forestry through techniques like tissue culture, micropropagation, and embryogenesis to enable the large-scale, clonal propagation of identical forest trees. Somatic hybridization and haploid production are also areas of interest for applying biotechnology in forestry. The scope of biotechnology's role in forestry is wide, as it promises to unfold benefits in the near future if developed cautiously with ethical considerations.

1. Biotechnology and Forestry
M. L. Kapoor
Abstract
Biotechnology is a sophisticated and advanced
technology encompassing many disciplines of
biosciences. It has evolved multidimensional
approaches to solve certain problems at a
much faster rate than known to the mankind
in the recent past. Biotechnology promises to
unfold many events of amazement in the near
future, but its use should be with a caution of
ethical sense. Tissue culture is one of the
biotechniques which has a great potential for
improvement and mass clonal multiplication of
forest trees. Micro propagation and
embryogenesis can play a significant role in
producing identical trees on a mass scale
through clonal propagation. Somatic
hybridization and haploid production are
another areas of interest in forestry. The scope
and application of biotechnology in forestry
has a wider role to play.

2. BIOTECHNOLOGY AND FORESTRY
M.L.KAPOOR
• The art of biotechnology is as old as
civilization.
• Industrial processes, dough, brewing liquor,
vinegar.
• Processing tea, coffee, cocoa, tobacco,
cheese, making pickle's and curding milk,
can be traced to time immemorial
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3. Post-renaissance advances in
biotechnology
• Include:-
• Production of vaccines against small-pox
• Rabies, antidotes against snake venom and
tetanus etc.
• Antibiotics lead the list of post-war
achievements in the the field of
biotechnology.

4. Modern Biotechnology
• Multidisciplinary which deals with:-
• Deals with practical use of microbial, plant or
animal cells to produce:-
• Goods or perform services for industry, trade
and commerce.
• Biotechnology is the result of a whole new
understanding of life processes.
• Helps in translation of research discoveries for
commercial exploitation of inventions.

5. APPLICATION OF BIOTECHNPLOGY FOR
TREE IMPROVEMENT
• WHY NEEDED:-
• Alarming shortage world over for quality
planting material.
• Billions of quality seedlings required to cover
millions of hectares of wastelands,
panchayat lands, farm lands and land with
industries.
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