Accelerating the Domestication of New Crops: Feasibility and Approaches.
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چکیده
The domestication of new crops would promote agricultural diversity and could provide a solution to many of the problems associated with intensive agriculture. We suggest here that genome editing can be used as a new tool by breeders to accelerate the domestication of semi-domesticated or even wild plants, building a more varied foundation for the sustainable provision of food and fodder in the future. We examine the feasibility of such plants from biological, social, ethical, economic, and legal perspectives.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Trends in plant science
دوره 22 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017