This database is no longer actively updated. As of 2007, its content has been combined with Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Abstracts and BioEngineering Abstracts into a single database cluster: Biotechnology Research Abstracts.

New research is revealing numerous uses for biotechnological techniques in the food industry, agriculture, and the environment. By the turn of the century, the market for such products and applications is expected to exceed ten billion dollars and this new database gathers the world literature in which molecular biology and genetics are applied to these areas. The database covers agricultural products involving both plants and animals, new applications across the food industry, and wide-ranging environmental developments. Plant genome studies, now the focus of major research initiatives around the world, are examined in detail. Food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies as well as scientists and other professionals working in agricultural and environmental fields will find information essential to their work in this database.



Subject Coverage
Major areas of coverage include:

• genetic engineering of animals, plants and microorganisms
• plant and animal breeding
• bioinformatics
• methodology
• waste treatment and bioremediation
• fermentation and process engineering
• enzymes and cofactors
• amino acids and proteins
• carbohydrates
• organic acids
• alcohols
• food
• antibodies
• antibiotics and antiviral agents
• vaccines