<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The food production at the global level is about to meet its border. Industrialization of agriculture correlates with an explosive enlargement of human population, during XX and at the beginning of XXI centuries. An ongoing process of environmental erosion has been speeding up during that period, not only in our physical surrounding, but also in biodiversity. A new direction in agricultural food production is in demand. Organic food production has been recognized as the way of providing safety and quality food, preserving the environment in the same time. In the other hand new land areas have to be explored for agricultural use, in order to enhance food quantity to meeting the increasing demand for food. These targets set new requirements in plant breeding. To fulfill these requirements the genetic variability harbored in genetic resources has to be preserved, examined and put to good use.</p></abstract>

The food production at the global level is about to meet its border. Industrialization of agriculture correlates with an explosive enlargement of human population, during XX and at the beginning of XXI centuries. An ongoing process of environmental erosion has been speeding up during that period, not only in our physical surrounding, but also in biodiversity. A new direction in agricultural food production is in demand. Organic food production has been recognized as the way of providing safety and quality food, preserving the environment in the same time. In the other hand new land areas have to be explored for agricultural use, in order to enhance food quantity to meeting the increasing demand for food. These targets set new requirements in plant breeding. To fulfill these requirements the genetic variability harbored in genetic resources has to be preserved, examined and put to good use.

Agrobiodiversity Genetic Variability Utilization in Organic Food Production

Contemporary Agriculture

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The food production at the global level is about to meet its border. Industrialization of agriculture correlates with an explosive enlargement of human...

Agrobiodiversity Genetic Variability Utilization in Organic Food Production

Publicado en línea: 09 mar 2018

Páginas: 1 - 8

Recibido: 03 jul 2017

Aceptado: 24 dic 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/contagri-2018-0001

Palabras clave
biodiversity, organic, agriculture, genetics, breeding, agriculture

© 2018 Miodrag Dimitrijević et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Agrobiodiversity Genetic Variability Utilization in Organic Food Production

Publicado en línea: 09 mar 2018

Páginas: 1 - 8

Recibido: 03 jul 2017

Aceptado: 24 dic 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/contagri-2018-0001

Palabras clavebiodiversity, organic, agriculture, genetics, breeding, agriculture

© 2018 Miodrag Dimitrijević et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
biodiversity, organic, agriculture, genetics, breeding, agriculture