Next biotech plants: new traits, crops, developers and technologies for addressing global challenges

Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 675-690

  Ricroch, Agnès E ^a   Hénard Damave, Marie Cécile ^b  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b Saf agr'iDées   (France)

Author keywords

Biofortification; biofuels; climate change; editing; food security; GMO; transgenesis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AGRONOMY; BIOCONVERSION; BIOFUELS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; CROPS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EFFICIENCY; FOOD PRODUCTS; FOOD SUPPLY; GENES; INVESTMENTS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SEED; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TRANSCRIPTION;

BIOFORTIFICATION; BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC STRESS; EDITING; FOOD SECURITY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATORS; TRANSGENESIS;

GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS;

BIOFUEL; METAL; NITROGEN; STARCH; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR NUCLEASE; WATER; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE;

ABIOTIC STRESS; AFRICA; BASIC RESEARCH; BIOMASS CONVERSION; BIOTIC STRESS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CROP; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDIBLE PLANT; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HERBICIDE TOLERANCE; MARKETING; MOLECULAR FARMING; MUTAGENESIS; NON-FOOD CROP; NUTRITION; PAPER; PEST RESISTANCE; PLANT; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALINITY; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; TRANSGENICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; HUMANS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84975132516     PISSN: 07388551     EISSN: 15497801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2015.1004521     Document Type: Review

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