Plant breeding as the cornerstone of a sustainable bioeconomy

Małyska, Aleksandra; Jacobi, J.

doi:10.1016/j.nbt.2017.06.011

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“…Most of the policy strategy developments in BE have already adopted a more or less participatory approach by stakeholder conferences, workshops and surveys [4], and private-public partnerships to encourage successful market integration [15]. Poor coherence between decision makers, scientists, and stakeholders was assessed to be at the origin of regulatory failures [61,62], and biotechnology was the subject of controversial public debates, making societal acceptance an enabling factor [63]. Basing BE policy on a broad societal debate should be a democratic imperative, and NGOs, as important public-opinion formers, have to participate [64].…”

Section: Stakeholder Participation: a Necessity Rather Than A Burdenmentioning

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Stakeholders’ Interests and Perceptions of Bioeconomy Monitoring Using a Sustainable Development Goal Framework

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The bioeconomy as an industrial metabolism based on renewable resources is characterized by, not intrinsic, but rather potential benefits for global sustainability, depending on many factors and actors. Hence, an appropriate systematic monitoring of its development is vital and complexly linked to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as diverse stakeholder expectations. To structure a framework of the important aspects of such a monitoring system, we conducted a series of stakeholder workshops to assess the relevance of SDGs for the bioeconomy. Our results show how the complexities of these issues are perceived by 64 stakeholders, indicating significant commonalities and differences among six SDGs, including specific interests, perceptions, and, in some cases, counterintuitive and contradictory issues. Eventually, the idea of a bioeconomy is a question of the perception of ends and means of a societal transformation toward holistic sustainability. Global implications like trade-offs, hunger, poverty, and inequalities are aspects of high relevance for monitoring of bioeconomy regions in which they actually do not seem to be substantial.

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Section: Stakeholder Participation: a Necessity Rather Than A Burdenmentioning

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Stakeholders’ Interests and Perceptions of Bioeconomy Monitoring Using a Sustainable Development Goal Framework

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“…Bioeconomy start-ups (often spin-offs from research institutes) play a vital role in commercializing and diffusing these new technologies and substituting fossil-based industry standards [27][28][29][30]. According to the technology-based perspective, without significant technological progress and innovation, biobased products would be either unavailable due to resource constraints [31][32][33] or not competitive due to a lack of value-generating efficiency [13].…”

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Transition to a Sustainable Bioeconomy

2021

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Exceeding planetary boundaries, and especially climate change, requires economies worldwide to decarbonize and to incorporate principles of sustainable development. Transforming a traditional economy into a sustainable bioeconomy by replacing fossil resources through renewable biogenic resources offers a solution to this end. However, seemingly opposing transition perspectives (i.e., technology-based vs. socio-ecological) lead to fragmented efforts, and the exact form of the transition pathway to the goal of a bioeconomy remains unclear. We examine the issue by involving an international expert sample in a Delphi survey and subsequent cross-impact analysis. Based on the experts’ views, we present a list of events necessary to achieve the transformation ranked by the experts to reflect their urgency. The cross-impact analysis facilitates combining the eight most urgent events to create an integrated model of the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy. Our findings suggest that, rather than bioeconomy strategies, investment in the relevant sectors currently constitutes the main bottleneck hindering such a transition.

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“…It is necessary to evaluate plants with suitable traits for further improvement. Through breeding programs, improved food plants can be developed to produce quality leaves with increased biomass that are tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses (Małyska & Jacobi, 2018). Improvement of the genetic base of food plants can be carried out through collection, characterization, evaluation of new germplasm accessions, and their utilization in breeding programs.…”

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Food plant diversity, distribution, and nutritional aspects of the endemic golden silk producing silkworm, Antheraea assamensis – a review

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Bhattacharyya

2021

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Muga silkworms, Antheraea assamensis (Helfer) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) is a semi-domesticated sericigenous insect that produces the costliest golden colored exquisite silk. The silkworm is endemic to Assam and the adjoining areas of northeastern India. This multivoltine silkworm feeds on a variety of perennial food plants. However, less is known about the food plants of the silkworm other than the primary ones, namely Persea bombycina Kost. and Litsea monopetala (Roxb.) Pers. (both Lauraceae) in terms of rearing performances, diversity, nutritional aspects, and silkworm-food plant relationships. Here, we review the utilization and present status of the food plants of Muga silkworm based on published information and field observations. Although 37 species belonging to eight familiesnamely Magnoliaceae, Lauraceae, Celastraceae, Verbenaceae, Apocynaceae, Symplocaceae, Rutaceae, and Rhamnaceaewere reported previously, only P. bombycina and L. monopetala have been exploited commercially and are being utilized in silkworm farming. Some other food plants documented previously are six Cinnamomum spp., five Litsea spp., three Symplocos spp., three Zanthoxylum spp., three Persea spp., three Actinodaphne spp., and two Celastrus spp. Systematic documentation, evaluation, and conservation of these food plants of Muga silkworm is urgently needed to preserve their gene pool in wild habitats. Silkworm farming in forest vicinity and tea silkworm-based farming (as shade tree) may be experimentally tried which will aid the conservation of biodiversity with economic benefit.

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Plant breeding as the cornerstone of a sustainable bioeconomy

Cited by 19 publications

References 2 publications

Stakeholders’ Interests and Perceptions of Bioeconomy Monitoring Using a Sustainable Development Goal Framework

Stakeholders’ Interests and Perceptions of Bioeconomy Monitoring Using a Sustainable Development Goal Framework

Transition to a Sustainable Bioeconomy

Food plant diversity, distribution, and nutritional aspects of the endemic golden silk producing silkworm, Antheraea assamensis – a review

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