Improving crops for a changing world
Date
2021-09-06
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Frontiers Media S.A
Abstract
Plant biotechnology has been fundamental to the development of human civilisation. The
domestication of plants helped increase food production, allowing the sustenance of populations in
large settlements and they provide most calories in the human diet alongside being used as fodder
for farm animals. They are also good sources of both therapeutic drugs and industrial feed stocks,
while more recently they have been used to produce pharmaceutical proteins and biofuels. There
are neverthelessmany areas where plants can be improved through geneticmanipulation and there
are pressing reasons why this needs to be accomplished.
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CITATION: Lloyd JR and Kossmann J (2021) Improving Crops for a Changing World. Front. Plant Sci. 12:728328. doi.10.3389/fpls.2021.728328
The original publication is available at: frontiersin.org
The original publication is available at: frontiersin.org
Keywords
Plant biotechnology, Abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, Biofuels, Crop yields, Functional foods, Genome editing, Abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, Crops -- Effect of stress on, Plant genetic engineering, GMOs (Genetically modified organisms) -- Regulation
Citation
Lloyd JR and Kossmann J (2021) Improving Crops for a Changing World. Front. Plant Sci. 12:728328. doi.10.3389/fpls.2021.728328