McCouch, S. (2013) Feeding the future. Nature, 499. pp. 23-24.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | professor of plant breeding and genetics and of plant biology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. e-mail: mccouch@cornell.edu |
| Subjects: | Crop Improvement |
| Divisions: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Depositing User: | Mr Siva Shankar |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2013 04:28 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2013 04:28 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/499023a |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/10852 |
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