Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand
Agricultural Research Service · United States Department of Agriculture · +26 more institutions
Abstract
The world's crop productivity is stagnating whereas population growth, rising affluence, and mandates for biofuels put increasing demands on agriculture. Meanwhile, demand for increasing cropland competes with equally crucial global sustainability and environmental protection needs. Addressing this looming agricultural crisis will be one of our greatest scientific challenges in the coming decades, and success will require substantial improvements at many levels. We assert that increasing the efficiency and productivity of photosynthesis in crop plants will be essential if this grand challenge is to be met. Here, we explore an array of prospective redesigns of plant systems at various scales, all aimed at…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 31.02
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 65
Authors
25- DRDonald R. OrtCorresponding
Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- SMSabeeha Merchant
University of California, Los Angeles
- JAJean Alric
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecologie Microbienne Lyon
- ABAlice Barkan
University of Oregon
- RERobert E. Blankenship
Washington University in St. Louis
Topics & keywords
- Sustainability
- Natural resource economics
- Productivity
- Agriculture
- Agricultural productivity
- World population
- Biofuel
- Production (economics)
- Zero hunger