在大多数人看来,作物生物技术与世界上的发展中国家不可相提并论。他们可能认为:这种高技术性质的生物技术,其方法和设备都与发展中世界不相适宜。但这是大错特错的。首次作物生物技术就不是一项孤立的技术,因为它的主要功能是完善已建立的植物育种技术,为其提供更大的范围、更快的速度和更高的准确性。实际上几乎所有人都同意以下观点:在过去的20年间,发展中国家运用传统方法,已使热带和亚热带作物实现了许多育种上的突破。并且,在主要粮食作物如谷物、土豆、豆类和油料种子中,现有的种质资源也有待开发。至于需要,很清楚,发展中国家有最大的需要、需求和日益增长的期望,应在将来制订一个目标来不断增加和利用其粮食和纤维资源。且只有将最有效的“粮食生产技术”集中在这些地区,才是正确 To most people, crop biotechnology can not be compared with the developing countries in the world. They may think that this high-tech biotechnology, its methods and equipment are not compatible with the developing world. But this is a big mistake. First crop biotechnology is not an isolated technology because its main function is to perfect established plant breeding techniques to provide greater scope, speed and accuracy. Almost everyone in fact agrees with the view that the traditional approaches used by developing countries over the past two decades have resulted in many breeding breakthroughs in tropical and subtropical crops. Also, existing germplasm resources have yet to be developed in the staple food crops such as grains, potatoes, beans and oil seeds. As needed, it is clear that developing countries have the greatest needs, needs and growing expectations and that in the future a goal should be set to continuously increase and utilize their food and fiber resources. And it is only right that the most effective “food production technologies” will be concentrated in these areas