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| Content Type: | Abstract or Summary only |
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| Author(s): | Molnar, Thomas J.;
Baxer, Sara N.;
Funk, C. Reed |
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| Author Affiliation: | Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey |
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| Title: | Genetic improvement of perennial crops for a sustainable future |
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| Section: | Poster presentations
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| Meeting Info.: | New Brunswick, NJ: January 10-11, 2008 |
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| Source: | Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Rutgers TurfgrassSymposium. 2008, p. 48. |
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| Publishing Information: | New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Turfgrass Science, Cook College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Breeding improvement; Sustainable land management; Environmental protection; Futures; Genetic engineering
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| Abstract/Contents: | "The need to produce enough food for the additional 3 billion people projected to populate the earth in the next 50 years, while eliminating world hunger, stabilizing climates, improving our environment and reducing the use of fossil fuels by increasing the production of biofuels will require not only a continuation of the Green Revolution, but also a very significant expansion. This can be done by dramatically increasing (possibly doubling) biomass production throughout the world using perennial trees, shrubs, grasses, legumes, and forbs adapted to land not suitable for sustainable production of cultivated annual crops. The implementations of this Expanded Green Revolution will require planting billions of genetically improved, highly-productive trees on much of the over two billion hectares of the world's degraded forests. A majority of the 850 million hectares of destroyed or degraded forests of the tropics should be planted to exceptionally productive perennial plants, such as oil palms, hybrid eucalyptus and other food, timber, and bioenergy crops. Hundreds of millions of trees should be added to urban and suburban landscapes, farm woodlots, roadsides, waterways, etc. It is essential to restore and improve the world's very extensive and often degraded rangelands with genetically improved grasses, shrubs, legumes, and other forbs. Additionally, managing forests, rangelands, etc. to where plants are maintained in their rapid growth phase will maximize productivity and CO2 uptake from the atmosphere. At Rutgers University, exciting progress is being made in the genetic improvement of underutilized perennial crop plants for improved nutrition, ample amounts of bioenergy, environmental enhancement, timber, and soil improvement. Effective plant breeding programs similar to ours with supporting programs in ecology, forestry, agronomy, horticulture, pathology, soil science, etc. should be established for various ecosystems throughout the world to identify and improve suitable species, to properly and sustainably implement their use, and ultimately to make a major contribution to a sustainable future." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Molnar, T. J., S. N. Baxer, and C. R. Funk. 2008. Genetic improvement of perennial crops for a sustainable future. Proc. Annu. Rutgers Turfgrass Symp. p. 48. |
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