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Back to the future: Scientists want to make crops wild again
All crops will benefit if they return the properties of their wild ancestors.
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According to a new study, with the aim of increasing agricultural production scientists plan to make food crops wild again, returning them lost the genetic properties of the ancients, edible plants.

Important properties of wild plants, including some varieties of wheat and rice, were inadvertently lost for thousands of years of breeding.

When people domesticated wheat approximately 7500 BC, farmers have chosen the seeds on the basis of several important characteristics, especially yield.

According to a study published in the journal Trends in Plant Science, such decisions taken by the generations of farmers, may have weakened the resistance of crops to new challenges such as global warming,

Scientist from the University of Copenhagen, which is one of the authors of the study reported on the assumption that all crops will benefit if they return the properties of their wild ancestors.

Such crops will have increased resistance to drought, cold, diseases and pests, as well as better to get nutrients from the soil.

Scientists propose to use biotechnology to return the necessary genes of wild species of crops in widespread varieties and to improve food security.

This plan causes less controversy than other genetically modified organisms, because it does not include the transfer of alien genes between organisms.

Scientists are not sure how much more you will be able to produce food if farmers follow their advice. But they argue that the urgent problems, such as climate change, population growth and soil degradation, stress the urgency of using the potential of ancient genetic material.



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Источники: Agro2b
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