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Agriculture: Feeding the future

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/7407/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/499023a
10.1038/499023a
 
Title Agriculture: Feeding the future
 
Creator McCouch, S
Baute, G J
Bradeen, J
Bramel, P
Bretting, P K
Buckler, E
Burke, J M
Charest, D
Cloutier, S
Cole, G
Dempewolf, H
Dingkuhn, M
Feuillet, C
Gepts, P
Grattapaglia, D
Guarino, L
Jackson, S
Knapp, S
Langridge, P
Lawton-Rauh, A
Lijua, Q
Lusty, C
Michael, T
Myles, S
Naito, K
Nelson, R L
Pontarollo, R
Richards, C M
Rieseberg, L
Ross-Ibarra, J
Rounsley, S
Hamilton, R S
Schurr, U
Stein, N
Tomooka, N
van der Knaap, E
van Tassel, D
Toll, J
Valls, J
Varshney, R K
Ward, J
Waugh, R
Wenzl, P
Zamir, D
 
Subject Food and Nutrition
 
Description Humanity depends on fewer than a
dozen of the approximately 300,000
species of flowering plants for 80%
of its caloric intake. And we capitalize on
only a fraction of the genetic diversity that
resides within each of these species. This is
not enough to support our food system in
the future. Food availability must double in
the next 25 years to keep pace with population
and income growth around the world.
Already, food-production systems are precarious
in the face of intensifying demand,
climate change, soil degradation and water
and land shortages.
Farmers have saved the seeds of hundreds
of crop species and hundreds of thousands of
‘primitive’ varieties (local domesticates called
landraces), as well as the wild relatives of crop
species and modern varieties no longer in use.
These are stored in more than 1,700 gene
banks worldwide. Maintaining the 11 international
gene-bank collections alone costs
about US$18 million a year.
 
Publisher Macmillan Publishers
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7407/1/FeedingTheFuture_Nature499p23_2013.pdf
McCouch, S and Baute, G J and Bradeen, J and Bramel, P and Bretting, P K and Buckler, E and Burke, J M and Charest, D and Cloutier, S and Cole, G and Dempewolf, H and Dingkuhn, M and Feuillet, C and Gepts, P and Grattapaglia, D and Guarino, L and Jackson, S and Knapp, S and Langridge, P and Lawton-Rauh, A and Lijua, Q and Lusty, C and Michael, T and Myles, S and Naito, K and Nelson, R L and Pontarollo, R and Richards, C M and Rieseberg, L and Ross-Ibarra, J and Rounsley, S and Hamilton, R S and Schurr, U and Stein, N and Tomooka, N and van der Knaap, E and van Tassel, D and Toll, J and Valls, J and Varshney, R K and Ward, J and Waugh, R and Wenzl, P and Zamir, D (2013) Agriculture: Feeding the future. Nature, 24 (499). pp. 23-24. ISSN 1476-4687