Biotechnology offers tremendous potential for improving crop production, animal agriculture, and bioprocessing. It can provide scientists with new ways to develop higher-yielding and more nutritious crop varieties, to improve resistance to disease, or to reduce the need for inputs of fertilizers and other expensive agricultural chemicals. This book explores the United States' ability to solve important agricultural problems, effectively use funds and institutional structures to support biotechnology research for agriculture, train researchers in new scientific areas, efficiently transfer technology, and regulate and test recombinant DNA organisms in the field

生物技术为改善作物生产、动物农业和生物加工提供了巨大的潜力。它可以为科学家提供新的方法，开发高产、更有营养的作物品种，提高抗病能力，或者减少对化肥和其他昂贵农业化学品的投入。本书探讨了美国解决重要农业问题的能力，有效地利用资金和体制结构支持农业生物技术研究，在新的科学领域培训研究人员，有效地转让技术，并在该领域监管和测试重组DNA生物体