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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 155-164Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.11.003
Keywords
rewilding; reverse breeding; sustainable agriculture
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- University of Copenhagen Excellency Program [KU2016]
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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.
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