Record ID No. |
5041 |
Author(s) |
Marie Duhamel, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse , 2013 |
Affiliation |
Université de Rennes I, CNRS UMR6553 EcoBio, Campus Beaulieu, F-35042 Rennes, France, Email: philippe.vandenkoornhuyse@univ-rennes1.fr |
Title |
Sustainable agriculture: possible trajectories from mutualistic symbiosis and plant neodomestication |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Trends in Plant Science 18(11): 597-600p. |
Categories |
Arbuscular Mycorrhiza |
Subjects |
Biological Interaction |
Sub-subjects |
Plant growth promoting fungi |
Host |
Plants |
Organism |
Arbuscular Mycorrhiza (AM) |
Country |
France, Western Europe |
Abstracts |
Food demand will increase concomitantly with human population. Food production therefore needs to be high enough and, at the same time, minimize damage to the environment. This equation cannot be solved with current strategies. Based on recent findings, new trajectories for agriculture and plant breeding which take into account the belowground compartment and evolution of mutualistic strategy, are proposed in this opinion article. In this context, we argue that plant breeders have the opportunity to make use of native arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis in an innovative ecologically intensive agriculture. |