Journal article
Are we ready for back-to-nature crop breeding?
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. Electronic address: palmgren@plen.ku.dk.1
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.2
Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Karen Blixens Vej 4, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark.3
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.4
Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 2, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.5
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark; Department of Large Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.6
Centre for Public Regulation and Administration, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Studiestræde 6, DK-1455 Copenhagen K, Denmark.7
Sustainable agriculture in response to increasing demands for food depends on development of high-yielding crops with high nutritional value that require minimal intervention during growth. To date, the focus has been on changing plants by introducing genes that impart new properties, which the plants and their ancestors never possessed.
By contrast, we suggest another potentially beneficial and perhaps less controversial strategy that modern plant biotechnology may adopt. This approach, which broadens earlier approaches to reverse breeding, aims to furnish crops with lost properties that their ancestors once possessed in order to tolerate adverse environmental conditions.
What molecular techniques are available for implementing such rewilding? Are the strategies legally, socially, economically, and ethically feasible? These are the questions addressed in this review.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 155-164 |
| ISSN: | 18784372 and 13601385 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.11.003 |
| ORCIDs: | Palmgren, Michael G , Edenbrandt, Anna Kristina , Andersen, Martin Marchman , Christensen, Søren Brøgger , Sandøe, Peter , Gamborg, Christian , Kappel, Klemens and Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark |
