In the coming decades,plant agriculture must produce the food needed to sustain the world's burgeoning population.This challenge is made more daunting in light of a changing climate,scarcity of inputs such as water a...In the coming decades,plant agriculture must produce the food needed to sustain the world's burgeoning population.This challenge is made more daunting in light of a changing climate,scarcity of inputs such as water and fertilizer,and the need to grow more crops on increasingly marginal land.To achieve food security,we will need to fully exploit plant genetics to develop new crop varieties that produce higher yields of healthier food.展开更多
基金supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation(Nos.IOS-1444511and IOS-1339209)
文摘In the coming decades,plant agriculture must produce the food needed to sustain the world's burgeoning population.This challenge is made more daunting in light of a changing climate,scarcity of inputs such as water and fertilizer,and the need to grow more crops on increasingly marginal land.To achieve food security,we will need to fully exploit plant genetics to develop new crop varieties that produce higher yields of healthier food.