McCouch, Susan ; Navabi, Zahra Katy ; Abberton, Michael ; Anglin, Noelle L. ; Barbieri, Rosa Lia ; Baum, Michael ; Bett, Kirstin ; Booker, Helen ; Brown, Gerald L. ; Bryan, Glenn J. ; Cattivelli, Luigi ; Charest, David ; Eversole, Kellye ; Freitas, Marcelo ; Ghamkhar, Kioumars ; Grattapaglia, Dario ; Henry, Robert ; Valadares Inglis, Maria Cleria ; Islam, Tofazzal ; Kehel, Zakaria ; Kersey, Paul J. ; King, Graham J. ; Kresovich, Stephen ; Marden, Emily ; Mayes, Sean ; Ndjiondjop, Marie Noelle ; Nguyen, Henry T. ; Paiva, Samuel Rezende ; Papa, Roberto ; Phillips, Peter W.B. ; Rasheed, Awais ; Richards, Christopher ; Rouard, Mathieu ; Amstalden Sampaio, Maria Jose ; Scholz, Uwe ; Shaw, Paul D. ; Sherman, Brad ; Staton, S. Evan ; Stein, Nils ; Svensson, Jan ; Tester, Mark ; Montenegro Valls, Jose Francisco ; Varshney, Rajeev ; Visscher, Stephen ; von Wettberg, Eric ; Waugh, Robbie ; Wenzl, Peter ; Rieseberg, Loren H. (2020) Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity Molecular Plant, 13 (10). pp. 1341-1344. ISSN 1674-2052
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2020.08.011
Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2020.08.011
Abstract
Over the past 70 years, the world has witnessed extraordinary growth in crop productivity, enabled by a suite of technological advances, including higher yielding crop varieties, improved farm management, synthetic agrochemicals, and agricultural mechanization. While this “Green Revolution” intensified crop production, and is credited with reducing famine and malnutrition, its benefits were accompanied by several undesirable collateral effects (Pingali, 2012). These include a narrowing of agricultural biodiversity, stemming from increased monoculture and greater reliance on a smaller number of crops and crop varieties for the majority of our calories. This reduction in diversity has created vulnerabilities to pest and disease epidemics, climate variation, and ultimately to human health (Harlan, 1972).
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