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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pickett, John A
• Aradottír, Gudbjorg I
• Birkett, Michael A
• Bruce, Toby J A
• Hooper, Antony M
• Midega, Charles A O
• Jones, Huw D
• Matthes, Michaela C
• Napier, Johnathan A
• Pittchar, Jimmy O
• Smart, Lesley E
• Woodcock, Christine M
• Khan, Zeyaur R

Titel

Delivering sustainable crop protection systems via the seed: exploiting natural constitutive and inducible defence pathways

Ist Teil von

• Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences, 2014-04, Vol.369 (1639), p.20120281

Ort / Verlag

England

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To reduce the need for seasonal inputs, crop protection will have to be delivered via the seed and other planting material. Plant secondary metabolism can be harnessed for this purpose by new breeding technologies, genetic modification and companion cropping, the latter already on-farm in sub-Saharan Africa. Secondary metabolites offer the prospect of pest management as robust as that provided by current pesticides, for which many lead compounds were, or are currently deployed as, natural products. Evidence of success and promise is given for pest management in industrial and developing agriculture. Additionally, opportunities for solving wider problems of sustainable crop protection, and also production, are discussed.