European Technology Platform 'Plants for the Future' (Plant ETP), Avenue des Arts 52, 1000 Brussels, Belgium(1).
Gemeinschaft zur Förderung von Pflanzeninnovation e.V. (GFPi), German Federation for Plant Innovation, Kaufmannstr. 71-73, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
N Biotechnol. 2018 Jan 25;40(Pt A):129-132. doi: 10.1016/j.nbt.2017.06.011. Epub 2017 Jul 6.
A prime driver for a bioeconomy is the need to ensure the availability of sufficient biomass feedstock for food, feed, energy and industrial uses. This demand must be properly managed in the face of several challenges, including environmental changes and abrupt climate shifts. Plant breeding and breeding innovation is the cornerstone for sustainable supply of biomass. Not only does research and development in this sector aim at providing high yielding crops in order to maximize production, but R&D in this field will also allow to obtain highly specialized plant varieties with new or improved traits that fit to specific applications. At the same time, there is little awareness among the general public of the fact that state-of-the-art R&D is a prerequisite for the production of sufficient biomass of the right quality in a sustainable manner. Plant breeders in the EU have to grapple with a rather challenging policy and regulatory framework. An important way forward to overcome the existing impasse would be to ensure transparent and trustworthy communication with the general public.
推动生物经济发展的主要动力之一是确保有足够的生物质原料用于食品、饲料、能源和工业用途。在面临包括环境变化和气候急剧波动在内的多种挑战时，必须对这种需求进行妥善管理。植物育种和育种创新是可持续供应生物质的基石。这一领域的研究和开发不仅旨在提供高产量作物，以实现产量最大化，而且还将使获得具有新的或改进特性的高度专业化植物品种成为可能，这些特性适合特定的应用。与此同时，公众对这样一个事实知之甚少，即最先进的研发是可持续地生产足够优质生物质的前提。欧盟的植物育种者不得不应对颇具挑战性的政策和监管框架。要克服现有的僵局，一个重要的途径是确保与公众进行透明和值得信赖的沟通。
