Aquatic biotechnology is the focus of competition

According to a symposium in Beijing the out of which points to worldwide competition in aquatic sciences and technology with the main focus being on aquatic biotechnology. The symposium was held on July 17, 2011 in Beijing and was sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences. Zhang Xianliang, President of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, said in his remarks that although China had achieved obvious progress in the areas of:

• functional gene screening and cloning 
• screening and application of molecular markers of important traits
• genetic linkage mapping of aquatic animals 
• sex control and monosexual seed culture
• molecular marker- or genetic marker-assisted selection
• culture of embryonic stem cells of farmed aquatic animals and establishment of their cell bank

there remained a large gap between China and the world’s leading countries in terms of aquatic animals’ functional gene, development scale of key types of molecular marker, environmental genomics, comparative genomics, nutritional genomics and research on use of stem cell technology in protection of endangered aquatic species. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers