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Designing the Crops for the Future : The CropBooster Program. / Harbinson, Jeremy ; Parry, Martin; Davies, Jessica; Rolland, Norbert; Loreto, Francesco; Wilhelm, Ralf; Metzlaff, Karin; Lankhorst, Rene Klein.
In: Biology, Vol. 10, No. 7, 690, 20.07.2021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing the Crops for the Future
T2 - The CropBooster Program
AU - Harbinson, Jeremy
AU - Parry, Martin
AU - Davies, Jessica
AU - Rolland, Norbert
AU - Loreto, Francesco
AU - Wilhelm, Ralf
AU - Metzlaff, Karin
AU - Lankhorst, Rene Klein
PY - 2021/7/20
Y1 - 2021/7/20
N2 - The realization of the full objectives of international policies targeting global food security and climate change mitigation, including the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement COP21 and the European Green Deal, requires that we (i) sustainably increase the yield, nutritional quality and biodiversity of major crop species, (ii) select climate-ready crops that are adapted to future weather dynamic and (iii) increase the resource use efficiency of crops for sustainably preserving natural resources. Ultimately, the grand challenge to be met by agriculture is to sustainably provide access to sufficient, nutritious and diverse food to a worldwide growing population, and to support the circular bio-based economy. Future-proofing our crops is an urgent issue and a challenging goal, involving a diversity of crop species in differing agricultural regimes and under multiple environmental drivers, providing versatile crop-breeding solutions within wider socio-economic-ecological systems. This goal can only be realized by a large-scale, international research cooperation. We call for international action and propose a pan-European research initiative, the CropBooster Program, to mobilize the European plant research community and interconnect it with the interdisciplinary expertise necessary to face the challenge.
AB - The realization of the full objectives of international policies targeting global food security and climate change mitigation, including the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement COP21 and the European Green Deal, requires that we (i) sustainably increase the yield, nutritional quality and biodiversity of major crop species, (ii) select climate-ready crops that are adapted to future weather dynamic and (iii) increase the resource use efficiency of crops for sustainably preserving natural resources. Ultimately, the grand challenge to be met by agriculture is to sustainably provide access to sufficient, nutritious and diverse food to a worldwide growing population, and to support the circular bio-based economy. Future-proofing our crops is an urgent issue and a challenging goal, involving a diversity of crop species in differing agricultural regimes and under multiple environmental drivers, providing versatile crop-breeding solutions within wider socio-economic-ecological systems. This goal can only be realized by a large-scale, international research cooperation. We call for international action and propose a pan-European research initiative, the CropBooster Program, to mobilize the European plant research community and interconnect it with the interdisciplinary expertise necessary to face the challenge.
KW - food supply
KW - climate change
KW - crop yield
KW - sustainability
KW - resource use efficiency
KW - photosynthesis
KW - biodiversity
KW - CO2
KW - bioeconomy
KW - breeding
U2 - 10.3390/biology10070690
DO - 10.3390/biology10070690
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
JO - Biology
JF - Biology
SN - 2079-7737
IS - 7
M1 - 690
ER -