Perkembangan Penelitian Bioteknologi Pertanian di Indonesia
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2003
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Balai Penelitian Bioteknologi dan Sumberdaya Genetik Pertanian
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Research in agricultural biotechnology has been developed since the end of 20" century. In 1985, National Committee was formed under the Minister of Research and
Technology. Research in agricultural biotechnology has been increased since Riset Unggulan Terpadu (RUT) under Dewan Riset Nasional and Hibah Bersaing in university were given, which make research program that more than one year were possible to do with a continues fund. Research in plant biotechnology were focused on plant improvement, such as pest and disease resistance, were done for rice, soybean, sweet potato, sugar cane, and chocolate and virus resistance for groundnut, tobacco, papaya, potato, and chili. While in animal science, research in biotechnology were focused on production technology, such as artificial insemination and embryo transfer in dairy cow, and also for food enriched by producing probiotics and enzymes. Even though in theory genetic engineering on cattle has a good impact for the future, several problems (i.e. technical, economics, and social) need a careful consideration. In aquaculture, biotechnology research has been conducted for genes transfer to improve resistance to disease and to promote growth. Biotechnology also used to produce vaccines and to detect virus with accuracy and faster. To anticipate problems that might be occur in application of biotechnology, government has issued biosafety regulation.
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Biotechnology, research, output, biosafety