npariente, 10 months ago

Perspectives call for engineering #photosynthesis to increase carbon capture and increase food production, for using #SyntheticBiology to enhance climate resilience in plants & garnering public support, to consider how the #microbiome of cropland soils could be manipulated to accelerate soil #carboncapture, and for more & better public–private partnerships in #crop research

#ClimateChange #plants #engineering #sustainability #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #foodsecurity
https://plos.io/3pTSI6U

npariente, 10 months ago

A Community Page highlights new tools and resources to accelerate #ClimateChange resilience in #rice

Two Essays discuss how to engineer plant traits that we don't completely understand, and how introgressions from wild relatives and traditional varieties can be used to improve the resilience of modern #crops

#ClimateChange #plants #engineering #sustainability #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #foodsecurity
@PLOSBiology

https://plos.io/3pTSI6U

MisuseCase, 10 months ago

@npariente @PLOSBiology GMOs have a lot of potential if they can be used for filling real human needs and not just extraction of wealth by Megacorps.

jamespblloyd, 10 months ago

@MisuseCase @npariente @PLOSBiology That is definitely a policy issue. As someone working on new technologies to broaden what GM crops can do, it is disheartening to see government funding so strongly encourage us to get IP on everything rather than directly fund it’s development and make it free to the world.