Title

Plastid Biotechnology For Crop Production: Present Status And Future Perspectives

Keywords

Cereal crops; Chloroplast genome; Climate change; Food security; Plastid engineering

Abstract

The world population is expected to reach an estimated 9.2 billion by 2050. Therefore, food production globally has to increase by 70% in order to feed the world, while total arable land, which has reached its maximal utilization, may even decrease. Moreover, climate change adds yet another challenge to global food security. In order to feed the world in 2050, biotechnological advances in modern agriculture are essential. Plant genetic engineering, which has created a new wave of global crop production after the first green revolution, will continue to play an important role in modern agriculture to meet these challenges. Plastid genetic engineering, with several unique advantages including transgene containment, has made significant progress in the last two decades in various biotechnology applications including development of crops with high levels of resistance to insects, bacterial, fungal and viral diseases, different types of herbicides, drought, salt and cold tolerance, cytoplasmic male sterility, metabolic engineering, phytoremediation of toxic metals and production of many vaccine antigens, biopharmaceuticals and biofuels. However, useful traits should be engineered via chloroplast genomes of several major crops. This review provides insight into the current state of the art of plastid engineering in relation to agricultural production, especially for engineering agronomic traits. Understanding the bottleneck of this technology and challenges for improvement of major crops in a changing climate are discussed. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Publication Title

Plant Molecular Biology

Volume

76

Issue

3-5

Number of Pages

211-220

Document Type

Editorial Material

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-011-9767-z

Socpus ID

79957924097 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79957924097

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