Horticultural biotechnology faces significant economic and market barriers’, in California Agriculture, Volume 58

Technological change has driven economic progress in agriculture and will continue to play a crucial role in the 21st century. The latest wave of technological change in agriculture is based in molecular biology. Will horticulture participate? Genetically engineered crop varieties have been adopted on a wide scale in some ag-ronomic crops, but horticultural crops face larger hurdles. High costs for re-search, development and regulatory approval combined with the small acreages planted and the diversity of varieties, will limit the potential fo