unit1 Agronomy

Questions ：
• 1.What is the role of agronomist?
• 2. What is the function of asexual techniques of gene transfer?
• 3. What is GM crops?
• 4. what are the key factors involved in transgenic breeding programs t
hat the authors of this review aim to identify?
• 5. What do the authors of this review focus on?
• 6. What do conventional methods of plant breeding include?
• 7.How can human beings get the full benefits in crop improvement?
• Q1：
The role of agronomist includes seeing whtehter produce from a field
of “x”meets the following conditions:
• 1. Land and water access
• 2. commercialization( market)
• 3. quality and quantity of inputs
• 4. Risk protection (insurance)
• 5. agricultural credit
• Q2:
• Asexual techniques of gene transfer help to engineer new characters
that are otherwise very difficult to introduce by conventional
breeding.
• Q3:
• Plants that receive genes using recombinant DNA technology are
called genetically modified crops.
• Q4:
• event design, event selection, and limitations oftern encountered in
direct adoption of transgenic lines and breeding strategies to
overcome the limitations for development of commercial products.
• Q5:
• Their focus is on the limitations in the introduction of foreign genes to
elite genotypes, selection of a candidate transgenic event, and
strategies for further breeding program.
• Q6:
• Conventional methods of plant breeding include

• I. evolutionary methods-- germplasm utilization, pidigree methods,

and evaluation of genotype environmnet interactions
• II. revolutionary methods, accelerated introgression of genes and
marker-assisted selection.
• Q7:
• Careful chocie of starting material fpr genetic transformation coupled
with precise integration into cultivated genotypes can allow us to reap
its full benefits in crop improvement