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PLOS BIOLOGY
卷 20, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001716
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- Wellcome Trust [217968/Z/19/Z]
- Earth Institute, Columbia University
- Wellcome Trust [217968/Z/19/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
As climate change threatens agricultural production, increasing genetic diversity in crops is crucial for climate resilience. This Essay explores the potential of crop biotechnology to contribute to diversification, emphasizing the importance of engaging researchers and stakeholders beyond the laboratory.
As climate change increasingly threatens agricultural production, expanding genetic diversity in crops is an important strategy for climate resilience in many agricultural contexts. In this Essay, we explore the potential of crop biotechnology to contribute to this diversification, especially in industrialized systems, by using historical perspectives to frame the current dialogue surrounding recent innovations in gene editing. We unearth comments about the possibility of enhancing crop diversity made by ambitious scientists in the early days of recombinant DNA and follow the implementation of this technology, which has not generated the diversification some anticipated. We then turn to recent claims about the promise of gene editing tools with respect to this same goal. We encourage researchers and other stakeholders to engage in activities beyond the laboratory if they hope to see what is technologically possible translated into practice at this critical point in agricultural transformation.
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