Abstract

India has over 45,000 wild species of plants and 77,000 wild species of animals recorded and these Comprises of about 6.5% of the world’s known wild life. India’s biological heritage is impressive not only in its dynamic diversity, but also in its uniqueness. And biodiversity considering different values like Environmental value, productive value, Ethical an aesthetic values. These values are helpful to human and animal conception and requires major source of food, medicine, horticultural and ornamental uses, timber, fiber, dyes and other chemical, fuel uses. This need not be surprising considering the fact that in the last few decades. And India has lost at least 50% of its forests. In addition overexploitation, hunting of natural sources, is poisoning by pesticides, excessive botanical and zoological collection, displacements by exotics causing biodiversity loss. In this point of view Biotechnology can play an important role in culturing and conserving biodiversity. The taxonomic systems based on DNA and RNA sequence data is main basis for biodiversity characterization and assessment. It has working big tool for identification of desirable and elite genes located up in wild relatives of domesticated macrobes and microbes. They have further made possible to domesticated taxa to produce transgenic that have increased agricultural biodiversity performance, quantity, productivity, Ecosystem management and resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses of all kinds. In this point of view the current study reveals biotechnology is a tool for conserving biodiversity and Ecosystem balance, improving rare species percentage.

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