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In a recent lecture, the plant breeder Norman Borlaug (1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) underlined that plant biotechnology is likely to be instrumental in dealing with the complexities of "feeding a world of 10 billion people" (1) that the current populat ion o f 5.8 billion would certainly reach during the next century before stabilizing. Agricultural biotechnology is expected to play a particular role i n the less developed countries (LDCs) where s t i l l 800 million underfed people are concentrated but where special constraints and challenges are faced with. For example, the population in the Third World relies to a large extent on staple crops as cassava, sweet potato and tropical fruits that are hardly known in the developed countries. As a result, highquality scientific research is scarce with these crops. In addition, the tropical climate that prevails in most LDCs causes a number of significant consequences, e.g. due to the absence of dormancy, (i) many tropical crops propagate (exclusively) vegetatively which makes classical breeding extremely difficult, and (ii) pathogens and pests can permanently damage their hosts.

Fungal Disease Control in Banana, a Tropical Monocot : Transgenic Plants in the Third World?