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Title: Semillas resilientes al cambio climático
Author: Moreno Garrido, Mónica
Tutor: Garí de Barbarà, Mercè
Abstract: The agricultural sector is one of the sectors most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, changes in pests, pathogens and rainfall, heat waves and other extreme weather events will contribute to the decline in agricultural productivity in the late 21st century. Therefore, successful mitigation measures need to be implemented soon. Thus increasing agricultural productivity in a sustainable way (by reducing greenhouse gas emissions) to meet growing global demand and at the same time adapting it to a changing climate are interrelated challenges that agricultural sectors must overcome. Crop biodiversity and modern biotechnology are two fundamental tools to try to meet these challenges. Biodiversity is an essential resource for improving crops and adapting agriculture to constantly changing conditions. Domestication and subsequent evolution under cultivation have profoundly shaped the genetic architecture of this biodiversity. Modern biotechnology has enormous potential to adapt to ongoing climate change and to mitigate its overall impact. In agricultural production and processing, biotechnology can solve all kinds of problems such as increasing crop yield, enhancing resistance to pests, fighting adverse conditions, and even increasing the nutrient content of food. It is necessary to implement changes in the current industrial agricultural system since its tendency towards crop homogeneity makes it especially vulnerable to climate change.
Keywords: agriculture
transgenic crops
climate change
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: Jun-2020
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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