Roles and responsibilities of an agriculture biotechnologist

Posted by Marco Martin on March 20th, 2024

Over time, the Biotech industry blooms in terms of innovations and discoveries, achieving new milestones in the world of science and technology every day. With the surge in demands for innovations, there is a massive opportunity for jobs in Biotechnology. 

An agricultural Biotechnologist is an expert who uses scientific tools, research, technology, etc., to transform living organisms such as plants and animals. While some agricultural biotechnologists only aim at crops, they are commonly known as crop biotechnologists. As a biotechnologist, you will use ways and techniques such as genetic engineering, molecular markers, molecular diagnostics, vaccines, and tissue culture. Through such techniques, the wanted characters of one crop are exported to completely different species. Hence, the transgene crops have the wanted flavor, color, troth rate, harvesting period, resistance to diseases and pets, etc.

Through such methods, you will enhance the nutritional quality of certain crops to meet the necessities of the growing population of the world. Some plants are given genetic resistance to pests and insects by genetic modification. You will also elevate the disease resistance of different agricultural plants.

What does an Agriculture Biotechnologist do?

• As an agriculture Biotechnologist, depending on your field of expertise, you would have the mentioned roles and responsibilities:

• Identifying genes that give a certain feature to certain crops.

• Work on different species to change or modify their genes so that they develop certain desired features.

• Breed different varieties of the same crop to produce more disease-resistant crops.

• Producing new breeds of crops based on genetic engineering that will produce a protein that kills insects when they feed on these genetic engineering crops.

• Performing research on genes and plants in research laboratories.

• Set up laboratory equipment to conduct research and monitor results.

• Collecting and studying different samples such as crops, tissues, cells, etc.

• Record findings and analyze the final results.

• Present your research results to the industry, government, other researchers, etc.

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