Microfluidic Genotyping of Plant

The most interesting thing about the article is that it analyses measures to curb food security in the world. This is accomplished by the production strong and drug-resistant seeds and crops, capable growing in any part of the world. The article successfully reports on the mechanism adopted by many multinational seed companies to speed up the level of plant production and yield development (Zec et al., 2018). These companies are adopting DNA marker technologies, which are flexible and cost-effective. The seed companies incorporate single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that guides and accelerates the crop and plant development processes. This technology enables sufficient and uniform food production to sustain the highly growing human population. Moreover, the plant genotyping would enable the crops to tolerate the newly developed pests and the changing global climatic changes (Zec et al., 2018). These plants would as well be able to be produced despite the poor productivity of the lands. The production process of plants is simplified, making the more food to be produced within a short period. This enables the seeds companies to produce food in volumes, thus meeting the market requirement all over the world. Furthermore, how the multinational seed companies adopt the molecular breeding is very interesting. Moreover, the article discusses the development of programmable droplet-based microfluidic devices for the maize genomic DNA genotyping (Zec et al., 2018). The article as well discusses a special type microfluidic platform, the nano samples processors (NSPs). These processors enable the device to load an unrestricted number of unique DNA sequentially. The article is therefore very knowledgeable as it enables one to understand the modern seed and crop breeding mechanisms. The article makes one familiar with the genomic assortment equipment in the agricultural productiveness, which accelerates the seeds and crop production. 

Reference

Zec, H. C., Zheng, T., Liu, L., Hsieh, K., Rane, T. D., Pederson, T., & Wang, T. H. (2018). Programmable microfluidic genotyping of plant DNA samples for marker-assisted selection.  Microsystems & Nanoengineering ,  4 , 17097.