Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
Center for Public Regulation and Administration, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Studiestræde 6, 1455 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Trends Plant Sci. 2017 May;22(5):373-384. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2017.01.004. Epub 2017 Mar 2.
The domestication of new crops would promote agricultural diversity and could provide a solution to many of the problems associated with intensive agriculture. We suggest here that genome editing can be used as a new tool by breeders to accelerate the domestication of semi-domesticated or even wild plants, building a more varied foundation for the sustainable provision of food and fodder in the future. We examine the feasibility of such plants from biological, social, ethical, economic, and legal perspectives.
驯化新作物将促进农业多样性,并可能为解决集约化农业带来的许多问题提供解决方案。在这里,我们建议基因编辑可以作为一种新工具,供育种者加速半驯化甚至野生植物的驯化,为未来可持续地提供食物和饲料奠定更加多样化的基础。我们从生物学、社会、伦理、经济和法律的角度探讨了这些植物的可行性。