TY  - JOUR
AV  - restricted
A1  - McCouch, S
A1  - Baute, G J
A1  - Bradeen, J
A1  - Bramel, P
A1  - Bretting, P K
A1  - Buckler, E
A1  - Burke, J M
A1  - Charest, D
A1  - Cloutier, S
A1  - Cole, G
A1  - Dempewolf, H
A1  - Dingkuhn, M
A1  - Feuillet, C
A1  - Gepts, P
A1  - Grattapaglia, D
A1  - Guarino, L
A1  - Jackson, S
A1  - Knapp, S
A1  - Langridge, P
A1  - Lawton-Rauh, A
A1  - Lijua, Q
A1  - Lusty, C
A1  - Michael, T
A1  - Myles, S
A1  - Naito, K
A1  - Nelson, R L
A1  - Pontarollo, R
A1  - Richards, C M
A1  - Rieseberg, L
A1  - Ross-Ibarra, J
A1  - Rounsley, S
A1  - Hamilton, R S
A1  - Schurr, U
A1  - Stein, N
A1  - Tomooka, N
A1  - van der Knaap, E
A1  - van Tassel, D
A1  - Toll, J
A1  - Valls, J
A1  - Varshney, R K
A1  - Ward, J
A1  - Waugh, R
A1  - Wenzl, P
A1  - Zamir, D
TI  - Agriculture: Feeding the future
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/499023a
JF  - Nature
SN  - 1476-4687
PB  - Macmillan Publishers
N2  - Humanity depends on fewer than a
dozen of the approximately 300,000
species of flowering plants for 80%
of its caloric intake. And we capitalize on
only a fraction of the genetic diversity that
resides within each of these species. This is
not enough to support our food system in
the future. Food availability must double in
the next 25 years to keep pace with population
and income growth around the world.
Already, food-production systems are precarious
in the face of intensifying demand,
climate change, soil degradation and water
and land shortages.
Farmers have saved the seeds of hundreds
of crop species and hundreds of thousands of
?primitive? varieties (local domesticates called
landraces), as well as the wild relatives of crop
species and modern varieties no longer in use.
These are stored in more than 1,700 gene
banks worldwide. Maintaining the 11 international
gene-bank collections alone costs
about US$18 million a year.
KW  - Agriculture
KW  -  Feeding
KW  -  Food Security
Y1  - 2013///
SP  - 23
ID  - icrisat7407
EP  - 24
VL  - 24
IS  - 499
ER  -