Biotechnology Helps in Improvement of Environment

This review gives an insight into the recent advancements in biotechnology with respect to its application in the environment. Particular emphasis is on food production, pollution control and bioenergy production. Environmental biotechnology combines molecular biology and cell manipulation in order to produce valuable products with a lot of new, effective and acceptable properties. Global food security (good quality food, disease resistant varieties of cereal crops), use of genetic engineering to minimize pollution and plants as a source of energy, are possible by the careful use of biotechnological techniques. In the coming future biotechnology will become major driving force in the field of environment, beneficial both for underdeveloped and developed countries.