Are we ready for back-to-nature crop breeding?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Are we ready for back-to-nature crop breeding?

AU - Palmgren, Michael Broberg

AU - Edenbrandt, Anna Kristina

AU - Vedel, Suzanne Elizabeth

AU - Andersen, Martin Marchman

AU - Landes, Xavier

AU - Østerberg, Jeppe Thulin

AU - Falhof, Janus

AU - Olsen, Lene Irene

AU - Christensen, Søren Brøgger

AU - Sandøe, Peter

AU - Gamborg, Christian

AU - Kappel, Klemens

AU - Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark

AU - Pagh, Peter

PY - 2015/3/1

Y1 - 2015/3/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.11.003

DO - 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.11.003

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1360-1385

VL - 20

SP - 155

EP - 164

JO - Trends in Plant Science

JF - Trends in Plant Science

IS - 3

ER -