Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation.


Journal

Trends in plant science
ISSN: 1878-4372
Titre abrégé: Trends Plant Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9890299

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
07 2022
Historique:
received: 16 11 2021
revised: 27 12 2021
accepted: 17 01 2022
pubmed: 13 2 2022
medline: 14 6 2022
entrez: 12 2 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Genetically modified (GM) crops can help reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In addition to possible decreases in production emissions, GM yield gains also mitigate land-use change and related emissions. Wider adoption of already-existing GM crops in Europe could result in a reduction equivalent to 7.5% of the total agricultural GHG emissions of Europe.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35148945
pii: S1360-1385(22)00004-8
doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.01.004
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

627-629

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Emma Kovak (E)

The Breakthrough Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA. Electronic address: ekovak@thebreakthrough.org.

Dan Blaustein-Rejto (D)

The Breakthrough Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Matin Qaim (M)

Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Electronic address: mqaim@uni-bonn.de.

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