| Title: | Delivering sustainable crop protection systems via the seed: exploiting natural constitutive and inducible defence pathways |
| Author(s): | Pickett JA; Aradottir GI; Birkett MA; Bruce TJ; Hooper AM; Midega CA; Jones HD; Matthes MC; Napier JA; Pittchar JO; Smart LE; Woodcock CM; Khan ZR; |
| Address: | "Rothamsted Research, , Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, UK" |
| Journal Title: | Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1471-2970 (Electronic) 0962-8436 (Print) 0962-8436 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "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" |
| Keywords: | "Agriculture/*methods/*trends Animals Aphids/chemistry Breeding/*methods Pest Control, Biological/*methods/trends Pheromones/genetics/metabolism Plants, Genetically Modified/*genetics *Population Growth Seeds/*chemistry/genetics breeding crop protection ge;" |
| Notes: | "MedlinePickett, John A Aradottir, 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 eng BB/F003986/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom BBH0017/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom BB/G004781/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom BB/J011371/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom BB/I002278/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review England 2014/02/19 Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2014 Feb 17; 369(1639):20120281. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0281. Print 2014 Apr 5" |
