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Title: | Review: Improving global food security through accelerated plant breeding | Authors: | LENAERTS, Bert Collard, CY Bertrand Demont, Matty |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Source: | PLANT SCIENCE, 287, p. 1-8 (Art N° 110207) | Abstract: | With an expected 9 billion people by 2050 and average income on the rise in the developing world, meeting future food demand will be a challenge. Climate change, urbanisation and land degradation are putting further pressure on the food supply. The multifaceted and self-reinforcing nature of these challenges calls for a fun- damental transformation of the food system. In the past, crop improvement through breeding has been the major tool to lift people out of poverty and increase global food supply. To adequately address these food security challenges, new improved crop varieties need to be developed and reach farmers sooner as a partial solution. In this review, we focus on various proven conventional and biotechnological accelerating plant breeding methods that do not require genetic engineering or gene editing. We pay specific attention to the feasibility for im- plementation by national agricultural research systems in developing countries in the short term. We argue that postponing technologies that can accelerate breeding makes no economic sense and justify immediate adoption of accelerated breeding practices in the public sector. Considering a wide range of factors including the eco- nomics of accelerated breeding, we advocate the use of a method called rapid generation advance (RGA) as the most feasible method for accelerating breeding in the public sector. | Notes: | Lenaerts, B (reprint author), Hasselt Univ, Ctr Environm Sci, Res Grp Environm Econ, Campus Diepenbeek,Agoralaan Bldg D,Unit AB 112, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. bert.lenaerts@uhasselt.be | Keywords: | Food security; Accelerated plant breeding; Rice; Rapid generation advance; Technology adoption | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/29095 | Link to publication/dataset: | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334798032_Review_Improving_global_food_security_through_accelerated_plant_breeding?_sg=xuxIDoEW_xVEDmWtzd8B2Q25O5ed5v_9uPgSrdjD-wQjY5ol25tpBTEpRPQqWOFDadmwjqvRPuF-p-g-qSx-VMwXysuhZ7WeaTsiiRD8.NtUCj2iPGhmdsRT2zLxbYJQtbmWWe8uliUebf6vL02M6HbTmqb1T2lG_34s2QJcjEYPBi0t2wdUNk0p8a8_xkQ | ISSN: | 0168-9452 | e-ISSN: | 1873-2259 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.110207 | ISI #: | 000487165500002 | Rights: | 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/) | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2020 |
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