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Transgenic Plants and Its Role in Insect Control

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The issue of food security has gained global significance in both political and social discourse due to a projected worldwide population increase by 2050. A major hindrance to achieving food security is the negative effects of insect pests. Insect pests competes with humans at the highest level for agricultural resources and it is estimated that their activities accounts for between 30–40% losses in food crops globally. For decades, numerous policies aimed at ameliorating the impact of insect pests on crops have been implemented. Prominent among these is the development and use of pesticides. Notwithstanding its effectiveness, this strategy is bereft with serious limitations such as poisoning, environmental pollution and insect pest developing resistance to pesticides. A sure way to defeat the food production challenges in a sustainable manner is to explore the use of new engineering techniques to develop superior crop varieties that are high-yielding, environmentally sustainable, cost-effective to produce and resistant to insect pests. Conventional breeding techniques to achieve this may be limited by time and space, hence the need for modern tools for the development of transgenic crops that are resistant to insects attack; these techniques hasten the process of insect pest control strategies in crop husbandry. The adoption of transgenic plants could reduce the usage of pesticides with broad-spectrum effect, in order to reduce the damages they cause. Since its introduction, transgenic plants have been a main tool for managing several insect pests of economic importance successfully. The adoption of such plants will reduce pesticides use. Despite its benefits, there is limited acceptance of transgenic plants globally. Notwithstanding this, the prospects of integrating transgenic plants in crop production to manage the negative effects of insect pests look promising as the demand for safe food and public involvement in evaluating such materials increases.

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  1. Plant Health Division, CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana

    Joseph Adomako & Yaw Danso

  2. Resources and Crop Management and Socio-economics Division, CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana

    Stephen Yeboah & Patricia Oteng-Darko

  3. Crop and Soil Science Department, Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development, Asante-Mampong, Ghana

    Stephen Larbi-Koranteng

  4. Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

    Frederick Kankam

  5. Department of Ecological Agriculture, Bolgatanga Technical University, Bolgatanga, Ghana

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  1. Key Laboratory of Bio-Pesticide Innovation and Application of Guangdong Province, College of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

    Surajit De Mandal

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    Fengliang Jin

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Adomako, J. et al. (2022). Transgenic Plants and Its Role in Insect Control. In: Mandal, S.D., Ramkumar, G., Karthi, S., Jin, F. (eds) New and Future Development in Biopesticide Research: Biotechnological Exploration. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3989-0_8

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