– Area planted to the variety and percentage of the area under the crop in the region. – Increased yield. – Enhancedquality. – Reduced use of pesticides and fungicides (e.g. in varieties resistant to diseases and insect pests).
– Savings in water (short duration of growth and drought tolerance). – Increased land use through early maturity to facilitate crop rotation. – Improved/intensifiedcroppingsystemswithchanged maturity or response to photoperiod. – Improved processing quality and value of the products (e.g., oil, starch, malt, beer and whisky). – Quality preference by the consumer (new flower and foliage colour in ornamentals, skin and flesh colour in root and tuber crops and fruit crops, aroma and glutinous nature in rice, and kernel colour in wheat). – Increasednutritivevalue,highlysineandvitamins, increased oil-shelf life, reduced toxins. – Increased yield of essential oils. – New specialty and designer crops. – Ease of harvest, threshing. – Increase in export earnings. – Reduction in imports. Often, induced mutations lead to more advantages than a simple desired phenotypicchange.