Feasibility of new breeding techniques for organic farming
Abstract
Organic farming suffers from lower productivity than conventional agriculture because the use of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers is restricted. Rewilding furnishes crops with lost properties that their ancestors once had to tolerate adverse environmental conditions. Rewilding is in accordance with the values of organic breeding and would contribute to closing the yield gap. New breeding techniques that involve methods of genetic engineering allow for rewilding in a way that the final crop cannot be distinguished from a crop bred by traditional means.
- Publication:
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Trends in Plant Science
- Pub Date:
- July 2015
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2015TPS....20..426A
- Keywords:
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- rewilding;
- reverse breeding;
- organic agriculture;
- TALEN;
- CRISPR-Cas9;
- cisgenesis