Author Institution: Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Monsanto CompanyBiotechnology has initiated a profound revolution in science with enormous technological and social consequences. The next 15 to 20 years will see biotechnology playing an increasingly important role in society in general. It will have impacts in the areas of human health, animal nutrition and plant agriculture. There will be 9 billion people on earth in 2025, and all the resources associated with biotechnology will be needed to enhance life in the next century
