Can less yield more? Is reducing nutrient input into the environment compatible with maintaining crop production?

By A. Good, A. Shrawat, D. Muench. Trends in Plant Science, 2004

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science

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The challenge of improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop plants: towards a more central role for genetic variability and quantitative genetics within integrated approaches. (2007, methodology): “To achieve this, transcriptome studies were undertaken in order to identify possible genes that were responsive to long-term or short-term nitrate deprivation (Wang et al., 2000; Scheible et al., 2004) and the interaction with carbon metabolism (Gutiérrez et al., 2007).”
Diverse concepts of breeding for nitrogen use efficiency. A review (2017, background): “, whereas & Under limited N (e.g., low-input, organic agriculture), the question would rather be “which genotype can cope with low(er) N while maintaining a reasonably good yield and thus do more with less” (Good et al. 2004), i.e., reach maximum efficiency of the resource under consideration.”
Identifying traits to improve the nitrogen economy of wheat: Recent advances and future prospects (2009, background): “N-utilization efficiency is dependent on the N efficiency of biomass formation, the effect of N on carbohydrate partitioning, nitrate reduction efficiency and remobilization of N from senescent tissues as well as storage functions (Novoa and Loomis, 1981; Good et al., 2004; Lea and Azevedo, 2007; Hi”
Mechanisms of Nitrogen Use in Maize (2019, background): “Developing hybrids capable of taking up more N or utilizing assimilated N more effectively can improve NUE, while knowledge on the physiology and genetics of N uptake and utilization is critical for the development of N-efficient hybrids [19,38,54].”
Natural Variation for Nutrient Use and Remobilization Efficiencies in Switchgrass (2009, background): “While the use of natural variation in classical breeding programs is one sure way to reduce nutrient losses with harvested biomass, biotechnology and precise gene transfer are alternative approaches that may extend what is possible using natural variation alone [8, 19].”
Breeding for increased nitrogen‐use efficiency: a review for wheat (T. aestivum L.) (2016, methodology): “Several definitions and evaluation methods have been suggested (reviewed in Good et al. 2004, Fageria et al. 2008).”
Yield enhancement genes: seeds for growth. (2005, neutral): “The efficiency of nitrogen use has also been a target for crop improvement, but this subject is not discussed here as it has recently been reviewed elsewhere [1,2].”
Nitrogen Assimilation and its Relevance to Crop Improvement (2010, background): “A number of species of plants have been transformed with genes important in N metabolism, and the effect of these transformed genes has been measured on a range of characters, including NUE (see Andrews et al., 2004; Good et al., 2004; Lea & Azevedo, 2007, for further discussion).”
Nitrogen efficiency of wheat: Genotypic and environmental variation and prospects for improvement (2010, background): “‘Nitrogen efficiency’ can have many meanings in the context f crop production and the literature contains a plethora of defnitions (Good et al., 2004; Fageria et al., 2008).”
Transgenic Plants for Abiotic Stress Resistance (2010, background): “…has long been believed that this step is the major control point in nitrate assimilation and it has been shown that expressing a constitutive NR as opposed to a fully regulated NR demonstrates accumulation of high concentrations of asparagine and glutamine (Good et al. 2004; Lea and Azevedo 2006).”
Plant nitrogen assimilation and use efficiency. (2012, background): “A number of reviews have summarized broader aspects of NUE (31, 40, 44, 46, 54, 105, 132).”