This chapter is from Creating Sustainable Bioeconomies: The Bioscience Revolution in Europe and Africa.
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The European perspective: Potential of crop biosciences to support resource-use efficiency, climate change mitigation and adaptation in European agriculture
This book chapter uses the example of wheat to demonstrate how, by improving nitrogen-use efficiency and introducing perenniality, modern bioscience has the potential to contribute significantly to climate change mitigation.
Sheaves of wheat in Poland. Photo credit: Jakub T. Jankiewicz via Flickr
Olsson, O., Fagerström, T., Sundström, J., Kätterer, T. and Virgin, I. (2017). The European perspective: potential of crop biosciences to support resource-use efficiency, climate change mitigation and adaptation in European agriculture. In Creating Sustainable Bioeconomies: The Bioscience Revolution in Europe and Africa. I. Virgin and J. Morris (eds.). Routledge, Abingdon, UK. 77-90.
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