Paving the way towards future-proofing our crops
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Paving the way towards future-proofing our crops. / Baekelandt, Alexandra; Saltenis, Vandasue L.R.; Nacry, Philippe; Malyska, Aleksandra; Cornelissen, Marc; Nanda, Amrit Kaur; Nair, Abhishek; Rogowsky, Peter; Pauwels, Laurens; Muller, Bertrand; Collén, Jonas; Blomme, Jonas; Pribil, Mathias; Scharff, Lars B.; Davies, Jessica; Wilhelm, Ralf; Rolland, Norbert; Harbinson, Jeremy; Boerjan, Wout; Murchie, Erik H.; Burgess, Alexandra J.; Cohan, Jean Pierre; Debaeke, Philippe; Thomine, Sébastien; Inzé, Dirk; Lankhorst, René Klein; Parry, Martin A.J.
In: Food and Energy Security, Vol. 12, No. 3, e441, 2023.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Paving the way towards future-proofing our crops
AU - Baekelandt, Alexandra
AU - Saltenis, Vandasue L.R.
AU - Nacry, Philippe
AU - Malyska, Aleksandra
AU - Cornelissen, Marc
AU - Nanda, Amrit Kaur
AU - Nair, Abhishek
AU - Rogowsky, Peter
AU - Pauwels, Laurens
AU - Muller, Bertrand
AU - Collén, Jonas
AU - Blomme, Jonas
AU - Pribil, Mathias
AU - Scharff, Lars B.
AU - Davies, Jessica
AU - Wilhelm, Ralf
AU - Rolland, Norbert
AU - Harbinson, Jeremy
AU - Boerjan, Wout
AU - Murchie, Erik H.
AU - Burgess, Alexandra J.
AU - Cohan, Jean Pierre
AU - Debaeke, Philippe
AU - Thomine, Sébastien
AU - Inzé, Dirk
AU - Lankhorst, René Klein
AU - Parry, Martin A.J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Food and Energy Security published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - To meet the increasing global demand for food, feed, fibre and other plant-derived products, a steep increase in crop productivity is a scientifically and technically challenging imperative. The CropBooster-P project, a response to the H2020 call ‘Future proofing our plants’, is developing a roadmap for plant research to improve crops critical for the future of European agriculture by increasing crop yield, nutritional quality, value for non-food applications and sustainability. However, if we want to efficiently improve crop production in Europe and prioritize methods for crop trait improvement in the coming years, we need to take into account future socio-economic, technological and global developments, including numerous policy and socio-economic challenges and constraints. Based on a wide range of possible global trends and key uncertainties, we developed four extreme future learning scenarios that depict complementary future developments. Here, we elaborate on how the scenarios could inform and direct future plant research, and we aim to highlight the crop improvement approaches that could be the most promising or appropriate within each of these four future world scenarios. Moreover, we discuss some key plant technology options that would need to be developed further to meet the needs of multiple future learning scenarios, such as improving methods for breeding and genetic engineering. In addition, other diverse platforms of food production may offer unrealized potential, such as underutilized terrestrial and aquatic species as alternative sources of nutrition and biomass production. We demonstrate that although several methods or traits could facilitate a more efficient crop production system in some of the scenarios, others may offer great potential in all four of the future learning scenarios. Altogether, this indicates that depending on which future we are heading toward, distinct plant research fields should be given priority if we are to meet our food, feed and non-food biomass production needs in the coming decades.
AB - To meet the increasing global demand for food, feed, fibre and other plant-derived products, a steep increase in crop productivity is a scientifically and technically challenging imperative. The CropBooster-P project, a response to the H2020 call ‘Future proofing our plants’, is developing a roadmap for plant research to improve crops critical for the future of European agriculture by increasing crop yield, nutritional quality, value for non-food applications and sustainability. However, if we want to efficiently improve crop production in Europe and prioritize methods for crop trait improvement in the coming years, we need to take into account future socio-economic, technological and global developments, including numerous policy and socio-economic challenges and constraints. Based on a wide range of possible global trends and key uncertainties, we developed four extreme future learning scenarios that depict complementary future developments. Here, we elaborate on how the scenarios could inform and direct future plant research, and we aim to highlight the crop improvement approaches that could be the most promising or appropriate within each of these four future world scenarios. Moreover, we discuss some key plant technology options that would need to be developed further to meet the needs of multiple future learning scenarios, such as improving methods for breeding and genetic engineering. In addition, other diverse platforms of food production may offer unrealized potential, such as underutilized terrestrial and aquatic species as alternative sources of nutrition and biomass production. We demonstrate that although several methods or traits could facilitate a more efficient crop production system in some of the scenarios, others may offer great potential in all four of the future learning scenarios. Altogether, this indicates that depending on which future we are heading toward, distinct plant research fields should be given priority if we are to meet our food, feed and non-food biomass production needs in the coming decades.
KW - crop productivity
KW - crop yield
KW - future world scenarios
KW - future-proofed crops
KW - plant research
U2 - 10.1002/fes3.441
DO - 10.1002/fes3.441
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85147523374
VL - 12
JO - Food and Energy Security
JF - Food and Energy Security
SN - 2048-3694
IS - 3
M1 - e441
ER -
ID: 339334025