Climate Change and Plant Breeding

Abstract

Plant breeding is, by definition, the art and science of changing the traits of plants through genetic improvements to produce desired characteristics for the benefit of humanity. Thus, plant breeding strives to use diverse genetic material to change the genetic composition of desirable plants/crops and select and multiply those with the highest attributes, structure, and nutrient composition for the most suitable uses related to human requirements. Crop yield has been a major target of plant breeding, although resistance and quality have also been important. Climate change calls for breeding efforts to improve characters in agricultural crops that can contribute to mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The assessment of plant characters has shown that an increased nutrient use efficiency is a major character that has a larger impact in decreasing the GHG emissions in wheat production.

Keywords

carbon sequestration; crop production; greenhouse gas emissions

Published in

Publisher: MDPI

SLU Authors

• Johansson, Eva

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Muneer, Faraz

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Prade, Thomas

  • Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG12 Responsible consumption and production
SDG13 Climate action


UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Science


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/124708