Climate Change and Plant Breeding

Sammanfattning

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.

Nyckelord

carbon sequestration; crop production; greenhouse gas emissions

Publicerad i

Utgivare: MDPI

SLU författare

• Johansson, Eva

  • Institutionen för växtförädling, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Muneer, Faraz

  • Institutionen för växtförädling, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Prade, Thomas

  • Institutionen för biosystem och teknologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen

SDG12 Hållbar konsumtion och produktion
SDG13 Bekämpa klimatförändringarna


UKÄ forskningsämne

Jordbruksvetenskap


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