Bio Technology Must Respect Biodiversity

Bio-Technology seeks to use all the tools at the disposal of farmers and engineers to seek out a best-fit solution to the challenges of the 21st century.

Biodiversity Of Crop Plants

The term biodiversity is one that gets a lot of talk, but is not well understood by many outside of ecology classrooms. Nor can it be understood without having some sort of feel for how intricately all life is connected in very real ways.

The biodiversity of crop plants is maintained at germplasm which is a collection of genetic resources for an organism. For plants, the germplasm may be stored as seed collection and for trees, in a nursery. These repositories throughout the world allow plant breeders to have access to the diversity of the whole plant kingdom when breeding to meet the challenges of a changing climate.

Biodiversity Preservation For Human Life and Health

Biodiversity is the great treasure of mother Earth. There are many things that can be replicated, but re-creating an extinct creature is not one of them, regardless of what one might see at the cinema. It is found no where else in the Galaxy that we know of, so every creature that is unique here is unique in a very extended everywhere.

There are countless examples of how very specific mechanisms to carry out the very important business of reproduction is accomplished in unique ecosystems, but suffice it to say that when one piece in even a single chain is destroyed, the whole thing is in danger of falling apart.