A32-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 22,1986 (Continued from Page A 22) improving land productivity more than two percent a year, at a time when even less productive land was being brought into production to cope with a perceived shortage in grain worldwide. The new field of biotechnology, he noted, really isn’t all that new. Man has been using biological techniques for at least 10,000 years, selecting crops for more desireable traits, fermenting grapes to produce wines, using yeast in making bread, and, more recently, developing antibiotics with microorganisms. Strictly speaking, the practice of biotechnology can be said to in clude the use of living organisms to make or modify products, improve plants or animals or to develop microorganisms for specific uses Current efforts in biotechnology take one of two forms: • Use of cell and tissue cultures to speed up the process of finding and isolating desireable traits or characteristics, like resistance to disease, temperature variation or toxic substances. • Use of recombinant DNA technology, the scientific term for the kind of genetic engineering that allows scientists to artificially create new organisms by altering gene structure. Less dramatic, perhaps, but equally important, Hess added, is the application of biotechnology in the animal sciences, specifically with embryo transfer. An estimated 100,000 cattle were produced in 1984 through use of embryo transfer, he said, a practice which “provides exciting possibilities for research in livestock.” We're Buying Quality! 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