Generally
speaking, input traits benefit farmers whereas output traits
benefit consumers. How soon do you believe will output traits
become more important than input traits in acreages and crop
values?
Given the
continued research and development milestones that lie ahead
for
all organizations doing research in the next generations of
biotech traits,
we're probably still a little ways from placing specific
timelines on many
of the future products. But, its probably useful to think of
the whole
field in a wider context: biotechnology today is where the
computer industry
was in the 1950s.
The coming decades are poised to bring us biotech products as
revolutionary
and important to us as computers are today. As scientists
continue to make
technological breakthroughs, we will see truly revolutionary
products,
including foods that are more healthy and help fight disease.
The first generation of products today -- the input traits --
are setting the stage as researchers from companies,
universities and research institutions work on the products of
tomorrow.
