BiotechnologyBiotechnologyBiotechnologyBiotechnology

WORLDfrom 6.05 billion to about 7.5 billion

WORLDfrom 6.05 billion to about 7.5 billion

PHILIPPINESfrom 82 million to 122 million

PHILIPPINESfrom 82 million to 122 million

Sources: ADB, POPCOMSources: ADB, POPCOM

world cereal production should increase by 50%

To feed this population...

Philippine rice production should increase from 12 to 18 M tons (40%)

• deforestation• overgrazing • land conversion

Agricultural resources are limited by ...

Source: FAOSource: FAO

we need better and more efficient ways to produce food

With increasing demand for food and limiting resources...

one option is through

Biotechnology

BioBio - life

TechnologyTechnology - any technique or procedure to develop new products

BiotechnologyBiotechnology- any technique that uses whole or part

of a living thing to make new products, improve or develop plants, animals and other organisms for specific use

GE of animalsGE of animals

GE to develop animal vaccinesGE to develop animal vaccines

GE of biocontrol agents against plant pest & diseases

GE of biocontrol agents against plant pest & diseases

Plant protoplast fusionPlant protoplast fusion

Embryo transferEmbryo transfer

GE of plantsGE of plants

GE to improve microorganisms

GE to improve microorganisms

Recombinant DNA for disease diagnostics

Recombinant DNA for disease diagnostics

Monoclonal anti body productionMonoclonal anti body production

Plant tissue culturePlant tissue culture

Fermentation, BiofertilizersFermentation, Biofertilizers

Insulin for diabetes

Interferon for treating cancer

Hepatitis B vaccine

Using living organisms to clean the environment

Improved food quality and food processing

Food biotechnologyFood biotechnology

Better tasting

More nutritious

Cleaner food

Animal biotechnologyAnimal biotechnologyBetter breeds of livestock and poultry

• leaner meat

•more milk

Vaccines

Crops biotechnologyCrops biotechnology

Varieties resistant to pests and diseases

High yielding crops

Improved postharvest qualities

Tissue cultured planting materials

Diagnostic kits

Genetic engineeringGenetic engineeringTechnique that transfers gene(s) of interest to develop and improve plants, animals and other organisms

- basic physical and functional units of heredity which carries

information for the expression of a particular trait

GeneGene

Conventional Breeding

Wild Relative Crop Plant

Genetic Engineering

Wild Relative Crop Plant

• limited to exchanges between the same or very closely related species

• little or no guarantee of obtaining any particular gene combination from the millions of crosses generated

• undesirable genes can be transferred along with desirable genes

• take a long time to achieve desired results

Conventional Breeding Genetic Engineering• allows the direct transfer of

one or just a few genes, between either closely or distantly related organisms

• crop improvement can be achieved in a shorter time compared to conventional breeding

Products developed through genetic engineering

Genetically Modified

Organisms (GMOs)

Genetically Modified

Organisms (GMOs)

= Transgenics= Transgenics

Commercialization

• Corn resistant to Asiatic corn borer

Field Test

• Rice resistant to bacterial blight• Corn resistant to Asiatic corn borer

Organic agriculture and GMO’s

• GM crops contribute to a reduction in fuel use due to less-frequent herbicide or insecticide applications and a reduction in the energy use in soil cultivation. Reduced soil cultivation is associated with herbicide tolerant crops.

Greenhouse

• Papaya with delayed ripening trait• Papaya resistant to ringspot virus

Laboratory

• Mango with delayed ripening trait• Rice resistant to tungro virus• Vitamin A-enriched rice• Banana resistant to bunchy top disease• Coconut with higher amount of MCTs• Sweet potato resistant to feathery mottle virus

A Bt corn plantation in Iloilo

• Bt corn had no adverse effect on fungal micro flora and showed no insect damage. Under warm and dry environment that is highly favorable for aflatoxin production, Bt corn had reduced aflatoxin content as compared with it s non-Bt corn counterparts .

Coco sugar for diabetics

Rolando de la Cruz:Curing cancer with cashew nuts extract

• “KAPAG tumunog ang gunting, pera na.” From shoeshine boy, dishwasher, barber to world-class inventor. This was the route taken by Rolando de la Cruz, the man who discovered a non-surgical treatment for basal cell carcinoma (BCC), the most common type of skin cancer in the world. He is now the main man of RCC Amazing Touch, the company that markets a cream found to be efficacious in treating BCC.

Philippine Carabao Center pushes artificial breeding to develop bigger water buffalos

Increase in dairy production also envisioned Delicacies from carabao milk

A biodiesel plant of Chemrez Technologies

Malunggay: From power gulay to power diesel

Ateneo savant hopes to producebiofuel from algae

Gov’t battles Vitamin Adeficiency among kids

TOSCANA FARM (Tagaytay)